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Robert Redford Biography

Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor, director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, and philanthropist. He is the founder of the Sundance Film Festival.

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I love making films more than anything, but it's tough.

Film, Films, Love, Love Making, Making, Tough

The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?

Big, Focus, Men, People, Thought

Right now I am working on something that's pretty important to me. It has to do with my own history in politics. I'd done All the President's Men, and the history of how that came about is a story unto itself. It began with The Candidate. No one knows about that connection. I was on a train, and I was promoting The Candidate going from Jacksonville, Florida, down to Miami to duplicate what candidates in 1972 did.

Candidates, Done, Important, Men, Politics, Pretty

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

Alive, Chance, Chances, Conform, Stay, Want

As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director.

Actor, Actors, Director, Directors, Like, Like Me

I never had to worry about divestment because I never invested.

Divestment, Invested, Worry

I can't go into a bar anywhere without someone starting to play 'the Entertainer'.

Bar, Bars, Entertainer, Play, Starting

I learned early that you'd better know what you're talking about. You'd better realize that certain issues are going to be so hot - no matter what reason, what logic you apply to it - you're going to be met with an opposition just because their viewpoint is different, and there's no way they're going to accept your reasoning. Furthermore, they're going to attack you because you will be portrayed as not being credible: "You're an actor. What do you know?"

Different, Issues, Portrayed, Reasoning, Talking, Way

Essentially, my kids grew up with the emphasis on the environment because I became a political activist in about 1969 and it was not an easy time. Those were the days when the oil and gas companies pretty much controlled the show and anybody speaking about solar energy or carbon energy would get smashed down as being a radical or a tree-hugger or what have you. So I was out there feeling very often alone and my kids would get that.

Emphasis, Kids, Oil, Political, Show, Solar

If you stay in Beverly Hills too long, you become a Mercedes.

Become, Beverly, California, Funny, Long, Stay

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.

Bernstein, Different, Fun, Time, Together

Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.

Achieve, Achieving, Came, Mean, Place, Talking

The art of making a film and its content are far more interesting to me than the result or impact.

Art, Film, Impact, Interesting

He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.

Attention, Bolt, Lightning, Personality, Sarcastic, Span

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.

Believe, Culture, Guess, Share

You’re never going to be the same person you are right now.

Person, Persons, Right, Right Now, Same

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.

Newspapers, Normal, Radio, Television, Watches

Now is not the time to repudiate environmental balance, but rather it is the time for all of us to work together - politician, advocate, rancher, scientist, and citizen. Only by doing this will the United States move forward and be a leader in environmental issues and ensure sustainability to our delicate ecosystem.

Advocate, Ecosystems, Issues, Leader, Moving, Rancher

Once you leave Sundance suddenly you run into bulldozers and concrete and cranes, and all that heritage that the Mormon culture used to be so proud of is turned into out of control develpoment.

Cranes, Culture, Heritage, Running, Turned

If we want energy security, then we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other issues may crowd the headlines, but this is our fundamental challenge. Big challenges require bold action and leadership. To get the United States off fossil fuels in this uneasy national climate of terrorism and conflict in the Persian Gulf, we must treat the issue with the urgence and persistance it deserves. The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

Big, Challenges, Energy, Fundamentals, Issues, Uneasy

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