Quotes from Robert Redford

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

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.

I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.

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

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?

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

When things become insurmountable, some people quit, some keep going for no other reason than to continue. Because that's all there is to do.

Well there's these things called books.... They are like TV for smart people

I,believe, as do so many of my fellow Americans, that the wild horse is an irreplaceable national treasure. It would be a tragic mistake to allow this noble creature to disappear from our western landscape." – Robert Redford

Everything that was to happen had happened and everything that was to be seen had gone. It was now one of those moments when nothing remains but an opening in the sky and a story—and maybe something of a poem. Anyway, as you possibly remember, there are these lines in front of the story: And then he thinks he knows The hills where his life rose . . . These words are now part of the story.

The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it.

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.

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.

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.

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.

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?

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

All my life I've been dogged by guilt because I feel there is this difference between the way I look and the way I feel inside.

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.

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

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