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" What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story. "

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" As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance. "

Robert Redford

Think

Together

People

" All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going to put an artist's eye to it, you're going to put a critical eye to it. I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies. "

" I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains. "

" I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor. "

" 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. "

" Park City is developing itself, almost to death. "

" I can't go into a bar anywhere without someone starting to play 'the Entertainer'. "

Robert Redford

Without

Starting

" The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story? "

Robert Redford

People

Men

" In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on. "

" I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories. "

" I'm not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn't be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing film. "

" 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. "

" People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage. "

" Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve. "

" Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. "

" I think a lot of people thought my career started with Butch Cassidy. "

" When you're making a movie, you don't think about the outcome. That's something I'm grateful for: whenever I go and do a new project, I never think about the outcome. It's always just about the work at hand. That's the fun part. The other part is always something I've had a struggle with, which is promoting the film. I know it's important. "

" I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists. "

" I began by doing a lot of character work on TV, just fun acting parts. "

" I believe the American people care a lot about the environment. "

" I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive. "

" I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am. "

" Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better. "

" I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life. "

" I had a mild case of polio - not enough to put me in an iron lung, but enough to keep me bedridden for weeks. As I came out of it, my mom wanted to do something for me. She realized that, growing up in the city, I'd missed out on a lot of nature. "

" I love making films more than anything, but it's tough. "

Robert Redford

Anything

Than

" I'm not a left-wing person. I'm just a person interested in the sustainability of my country. "

" 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. "

" I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't. "

" Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it. "

Robert Redford

Ambiguity

Respond