Robert Redford
I haven't seen 'The Revenant,' but I'm sure it was great because it has a lot of talent involved.
What I would like to do is a thriller. I've been wanting to do that for a long time, but one that was not at all dependent on special effects. Just purely psychological, but will scare the hell out of you. That's what I would like to do. I have not found it yet.
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.
When I was a kid, all I knew was that I felt more comfortable sitting in one chair than in another. And now I realize it was because one chair was older. I still respond directly to the age of things.
I really do miss being able to go through life a little less noticed.
I guess I don't like the fact that my life is becoming less and less my own - the prevailing attitude that you have an obligation to deliver yourself to the public. Actually, you're delivered to the public whether you like it or not. I guess if you don't like it, you should stop doing what provokes it. In my case, that's acting.
Storytelling was a way to see the world bigger than the one you were looking at, and that had great appeal for me. I think, since that was part of my upbringing, it became part of me, and I wanted to pass it along to my kids and my grandkids.
Park City is developing itself, almost to death.
Money speaks in Utah.
Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.Collection: Risk
I think you just keep going. I've been that way, my whole life.Collection: Thinking
Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.Collection: Inspirational
I think "quiet" sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.Collection: Thinking
What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?Collection: Truth
If you can do more, you should.Collection: Should
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.Collection: Mistake
Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.Collection: Success
Other people have analysis. I have Utah.Collection: Utah
Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.Collection: Weekend
The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.Collection: Success
You’re never going to be the same person you are right now.Collection: Persons
I guess some mistakes you never stop paying for.Collection: Mistake
Sometimes the failures can be exciting and fun. It's just a step on the road, it's not the end of something.Collection: Fun
Have a strong vision about the story you want to tell and how you want to tell it.Collection: Strong
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.Collection: Thinking
When did Noah build the boat? - Before the rain.Collection: Love
I'm not good at compromise.Collection: Compromise
The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.Collection: Country
I think there was something that made us not pay attention to climate change. Something that was up there. There was a saying when we were trying to pay attention to the environment that people used this phrase NIMBY - not in my back yard. People were saying, ‘I don’t care, it is not in my back yard.’ But now it’s in everyone’s back yard.Collection: Thinking
There's a lot of hyperventilation that takes off before the [Sundance Film] Festival, a lot of buzz. Every year we hear, this is going to be the new this, this is going to be the new that, and it never is. The buzz just doesn't mean anything. I'm glad it doesn't. Because I think the festival shows that what succeeds is content.Collection: Mean
Sundance started with two acres back in 1963 that I bought from a sheepherder for $500. What has happened, I could see development starting to descend on the state of Utah. I thought I had better acquire more land to protect it. I thought that would probably be my legacy, to protect land.Collection: Utah
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.Collection: Depressing
The meter is ticking [particularly in the face of climate change], so you've got to get to as much as you can as fast as you can. I grew up with 'This Land Is Our Land,' and public land doesn't belong to that administration or this one. We want our kids to grow up with real natural places, not just photos of them.Collection: Growing Up
It's a creative enterprise, just like art, just like painting, music. Creating something can be done in different categories, so to do it in film is just another expression, which is great. Because it translates so well because so many people see the work, if you're lucky.Collection: Music
You should prepare when you go to a public event to be public. That's when I will sign autographs. But not when you're going about your normal business.Collection: Events
I don't remember spending any time with anybody on set. I don't spend a lot of time with people.Collection: People
I never had to worry about divestment because I never invested.Collection: Worry
If you stay in Beverly Hills too long, you become a Mercedes.Collection: Funny
Curiously, directing my own films have made me more tolerant and patient. I've always been an extremely impatient actor. Waiting around drove me nuts. But now I'm much more sympathetic to a director's struggle.Collection: Struggle
Water is the sleeping giant issue of the 21st century and we all need to wake up about it.Collection: Sleep
Criticism challenges current findings. The effort to defend one's position can lead to deeper insights or consideration of options previously not considered.Collection: Effort
The art of making a film and its content are far more interesting to me than the result or impact.Collection: Art
It seems everyone in Hollywood is getting pinched, lifted and pulled. I'm looking weird because I'm not.Collection: Hollywood
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.Collection: Art
What we are living with is the result of human choices and it can be changed by making better, wiser choices.Collection: Choices
Like all actors, I was open to taking on new challenges, including those outside my comfort zone.Collection: Challenges
The entertainment person gets a certain credibility, and the politician gets a certain notoriety. I'm against it.Collection: Politician
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.Collection: Fun
I don't think you can ever return, really.Collection: Thinking