Quotes from Robert Redford

As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride.

When I go for a project, I wonder what underpinning a project will have that's going to give the audience some emotional access to it.

When I became successful, I put up a caution. I didn't think it was fair to have the shadow of that kind of success thrown on my family. And I was cautious about being taken by things that could destroy you.

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 don't remember spending any time with anybody on set. I don't spend a lot of time with people.

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.'

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 don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.'

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.

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 was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.

I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.

God, I just love baseball.

I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

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

I'm an impatient person, so it's hard for me to sit around and do take after take after take.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.

There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago.

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.

A few years after that first visit, I applied for a job in Yosemite.

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.