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" I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on? "
Robert Redford
Think
Possible
Need
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" Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion. "
Robert Redford
Business
Tough
You
" When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move into different areas. Sometimes they're wrong. Sometimes they're just very stereotypical or restricted in their own thinking of what they'll allow you to do. "
Robert Redford
Sometimes
People
Start
" I spent two summers working at Camp Curry and at Yosemite Lodge as a waiter. It gave me a chance to really be there every day - to hike up to Vernal Falls or Nevada Falls. It just took me really deep into it. Yosemite claimed me. "
Robert Redford
Chance
Day
Deep
" The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it. "
Robert Redford
People
Important Thing
Who
" Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is. "
Robert Redford
Truth Is
Information
Internet
" The focus of entertainment is taking away from what the public needs as news. I think investigative journalism will always be important and always find its way, be it on the Internet or wherever. "
Robert Redford
Internet
Focus
Think
" I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? "
Robert Redford
Think
Just
Environmental
" I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability. "
Robert Redford
Done
Everything
No Regrets
" I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me. "
Robert Redford
Like
Kind
Place
" I began by doing a lot of character work on TV, just fun acting parts. "
Robert Redford
Work
Acting
Character
" I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we're living in. "
Robert Redford
Journalism
Living
Negative
" Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it. "
Robert Redford
Watch
You
My Life
" Celebrity is a big part of the American social system. I'm certainly grateful for what it's done for me, but I do think that celebrity is overdone in our society. I think it's got a dangerous side to it. "
Robert Redford
Grateful
Think
American
" I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life. "
Robert Redford
Life
Today
People
" I'm an impatient person, so it's hard for me to sit around and do take after take after take. "
Robert Redford
Take
Hard
Impatient
" Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent. "
Robert Redford
New
Started
Talent
" Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart. "
Robert Redford
Walking
Golf
Become
" If you want to slice into America, it's pretty red, white, and blue in terms of how it goes about things, but there's a gray area there, and I've always been interested in where things are complicated. "
Robert Redford
America
Want
Red
" The Right has such antiquated ideas - if they took charge, I think they'd want to close the parks, open the land up for development. It's an ongoing battle to keep the parks strong. "
Robert Redford
Battle
Land
Strong
" I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young. "
Robert Redford
Problem
Never
Face
" When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new lease on this thing. So let's go.' "
Robert Redford
New
You
Wisdom
" I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing. "
Robert Redford
Tell
Drawing
Paint
" I haven't seen 'The Revenant,' but I'm sure it was great because it has a lot of talent involved. "
Robert Redford
Great
Because
Involved
" Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better. "
Robert Redford
Good
Taste
Hell
" It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter. "
Robert Redford
Think
Technology
Mind
" For 'Jeremiah Johnson,' nobody wanted to make that film. I went to Sydney Pollack, and I said, 'Sydney, I live in the mountains, and I would like to make a film about a person that had to exist in the mountains and survive in the mountains.' "
Robert Redford
Nobody
Survive
Live
" 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. "
Robert Redford
Society
Believe
Without
" I'm not a left-wing person. I'm just a person interested in the sustainability of my country. "
Robert Redford
Just
Country
Sustainability
" People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person. "
Robert Redford
Hollywood
My Own
People
" Storytelling was a way to see the world bigger than the one you were looking at, and that had great appeal for me. I think, since that was part of my upbringing, it became part of me, and I wanted to pass it along to my kids and my grandkids. "
Robert Redford
Me
Great
Looking