Robert Redford quotes and sayings
Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box.
Robert Redford quotes
- Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.
- It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
- Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.
- I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.
- I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains.
- I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.
- I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.'
- I believe the American people care a lot about the environment.
- I can't go into a bar anywhere without someone starting to play 'the Entertainer'.
- We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.