Quote

I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?

Robert Redford

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert Redford
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 18
Actor
Businessperson
Environmentalist
Executive Producer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Santa Monica
California
Robert Redford
Jr.
Else
Documentary
Need
Documentaries
Needs
Filmmaker
Going
Journalist
Much
Protection
Think
Privilege
Thinking
Public
Possible

More quotes by Robert Redford

Image
You’re never going to be the same person you are right now.
Robert Redford
Image
Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.
Robert Redford
Image
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
Image
Let's get something straight - I don't see myself as beautiful.
Robert Redford
Image
I would see my hometown, Los Angeles, change. Green space and orange groves gave way to cement, freeways flooded with traffic, and air pollution, all in the name of progress. I felt like I was losing my home. It had a profound effect on me, and I realized just how important nature was to my spirit, my soul, my point of view.
Robert Redford
Image
When did Noah build the boat? - Before the rain.
Robert Redford
Image
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
Image
If you want to slice into America, it's pretty red, white, and blue in terms of how it goes about things, but there's a gray area there, and I've always been interested in where things are complicated.
Robert Redford
Image
It's good to say, 'Look, I can't always be right, but my gut tells me this' - and then you confirm with your gut.
Robert Redford
Image
Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.
Robert Redford
Image
When I was a kid I was not a good student. I went to the University of Colarado, my grades were poor. I was asked to leave after a year. What I really wanted to do was to be an artist.
Robert Redford
Image
I can't go into a bar anywhere without someone starting to play 'the Entertainer'.
Robert Redford
Image
People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage.
Robert Redford
Image
The entertainment person gets a certain credibility, and the politician gets a certain notoriety. I'm against it.
Robert Redford
Image
I can't watch completed films - my wife makes fun of me.
Robert Redford
Image
I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.
Robert Redford
Image
We've poisoned the air, the water, and the land. In our passion to control nature, things have gone out of control. Progress from now on has to mean something different. We're running out of resources and we are running out of time.
Robert Redford
Image
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
Image
Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.
Robert Redford
Image
I think quiet sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.
Robert Redford