Latest Robert Redford Quotes from Interviews

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• When I was young, I said to myself, "You've got to make the most of your life." It's all about taking risks. Push yourself to do as much exploration as possible. Find yourself. Because sometimes we think we've found ourselves, but it's only part of ourselves we've found. We haven't pushed ourselves far out there where we make mistakes and things don't work out, but at least we've discovered something. I felt that's what my life had to be.

  Robert Redford

  Mistake, Thinking, Work Out

  Source: www.esquire.com

• What really matters is the work. And what matters to me is doing the work. I'm not looking at the back end: "What am I going to get out of this? What's going to be the reward?" I'm just looking at the work, the pleasure of being able to do the work. And that's what the fun is: To climb up the mountain is the fun, not standing at the top. There's nowhere to go. But climbing up, that struggle, that to me is where the fun is. That to me is the thrill. But once that's over, that's kind of it. I don't look too much beyond that.

  Robert Redford

  Fun, Struggle, Mountain

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I guess there are different ways to handle success. You can multiply it financially and use it to multiply your net worth. That's always been very appealing to me.

  Robert Redford

  Different

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I enjoyed working with Dustin Hoffman. That was really fun. He decided that to really be effective as Woodward and Bernstein, considering their differences, we should spend some time together. Because Dustin and I were very different.

  Robert Redford

  Fun, Together, Different

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I've been very fortunate in that I've had wonderful relationships with people I've worked with.

  Robert Redford

  People, Wonderful

  Source: www.esquire.com

• We've lost our moral foundation, which allows us to go this far over. So I don't blame Trump. I just think he is what he is. We're the ones who let that happen. We should be looking at ourselves.

  Robert Redford

  Thinking, Moral, Blame

  Source: www.esquire.com

• The entertainment person gets a certain credibility, and the politician gets a certain notoriety. I'm against it.

  Robert Redford

  Politician, Credibility

  Source: www.esquire.com

• That's another thing that's depressing: certain attitudes in Congress. They assume that you're dumb; they can take advantage of you being dumb. I find that offensive. It insults our intelligence. They're playing us for dumb and they're being dumb in doing it. But I believe that's gonna change. I think those people, the McConnells, are not helping us at all. They're taking us backward in time.

  Robert Redford

  Depressing, Attitude, Believe

  Source: www.esquire.com

• Trump is a businessman, but he is such a creature of the entertainment world. It feels that the entertainment industry is more entwined with politics than ever before.
  I just think he is who he is. You can't blame him for being who he is. He's always been like that. He's our fault - that's how I see it. We let him come to where he is. I'm not so interested in blaming him; that's being done enough by others. I'm more interested in: How did this happen?

  Robert Redford

  Thinking, Done, World

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I have faith in the pendulum swinging. Right now it's so far against the wall that it can't go any farther; it's gonna start to swing back. That's my optimism. One of the cures is gonna be getting the American people to fully wake up. All the American people, particularly young people, because they're gonna inherit this earth; they're gonna inherit what we're doing.

  Robert Redford

  Wall, People, Optimism

  Source: www.esquire.com

• Politics right now is in a very dark place, and I think the only place for me is to do what I do - make films, create art, watch it as it evolves. Right now it's like Humpty Dumpty sitting on a wall, and a great fall is happening. The behavior seems to be really dumb.

  Robert Redford

  Art, Wall, Fall

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I try to avoid giving advice. The only advice I will give is to pay attention. I don't mean to the screen in your hand. I'm talking about the natural world. I spent a lot of time educating my children about nature by putting them in nature. I said, "I want you to listen; I want you to look." There's so much technology coming into our lives that takes us away from the natural stuff, so I'm pushing the other way.

  Robert Redford

  Children, Mean, Technology

  Source: www.esquire.com

• Right now I am working on something that's pretty important to me. It has to do with my own history in politics. I'd done All the President's Men, and the history of how that came about is a story unto itself. It began with The Candidate. No one knows about that connection. I was on a train, and I was promoting The Candidate going from Jacksonville, Florida, down to Miami to duplicate what candidates in 1972 did.

  Robert Redford

  Men, Important, Done

  Source: www.esquire.com

• Essentially, my kids grew up with the emphasis on the environment because I became a political activist in about 1969 and it was not an easy time. Those were the days when the oil and gas companies pretty much controlled the show and anybody speaking about solar energy or carbon energy would get smashed down as being a radical or a tree-hugger or what have you. So I was out there feeling very often alone and my kids would get that.

  Robert Redford

  Kids, Oil, Tree

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I'm not good at compromise.

  Robert Redford

  Compromise

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I came to Europe I came to France and I had very little money, and I had to live low and stayed in a bohemian section of Paris with a lot of other students, who were from medical school, science school and art school. We all lived in a kind of communal way and I was challenged politically, because I didn't have a clue and they would ask me questions about the Algerian War, which was very big in France in the late '50s.

  Robert Redford

  Art, War, Book

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I was raised in California during the Second World War and into the '50s and everything was fine, everything was great. The sun always shone, everybody looked healthy and wore ties and smoked in restaurants, and there were cars for everybody - except us, because I came from a lower class neighbourhood. But [in France] I realised there was a different point of view, so when I came back to America a year and a half later I was much more focused on my own country culturally and politically.

  Robert Redford

  Country, War, Views

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I didn't think about politics until I came to Europe.

  Robert Redford

  Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I think Hollywood... well, there is no Hollywood anymore so let's just call it the mainstream since the business is no longer Hollywood producing its own films and then distributing, they just distribute.

  Robert Redford

  Thinking, Hollywood, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• The mainstream usually follows trends, it seldom sets them except for a few films.

  Robert Redford

  Trends, Film, Mainstream

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I don't think you can ever return, really.

  Robert Redford

  Thinking, Return

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I've always wanted to try new things because it's exciting and it keeps you active and alive.

  Robert Redford

  Trying, Alive, Exciting

  Source: collider.com

• I think you just keep going. I've been that way, my whole life.

  Robert Redford

  Thinking, Way, Whole Life

  Source: collider.com

• I'm always moving forward and trying new things.

  Robert Redford

  Moving, Trying, New Things

  Source: collider.com

• I'm not that interested in someone that one-dimensional, but I'm interested in playing somebody that's more complicated.

  Robert Redford

  Complicated

  Source: collider.com