Robert Redford – 8 Quotes

8 Quotes by Robert Redford

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

– Robert Redford

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

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

– Robert Redford

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.

– Robert Redford

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.

– Robert Redford

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

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

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

– Robert Redford