Robert Redford Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

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

  Robert Redford

  Technology, Stories, Film

• 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.

  Robert Redford

  Country, Lying, Eye

• 'Butch Cassidy' was the only film I ever enjoyed making.

  Robert Redford

  Film, Enjoyed

• 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.

  Robert Redford

  Mean, Thinking, Years

• I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

  Robert Redford

  Weekend, Cynical, Cotton Candy

• I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.

  Robert Redford

  Golf, Film, Metaphor

• 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.

  Robert Redford

  Music, Art, Expression

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

  Robert Redford

  Tough, Film, Love Making

• 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.

  Robert Redford

  Struggle, Waiting Around, Nuts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn't be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing film.

  Robert Redford

  Sports, Baseball, Golf

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

  Robert Redford

  Art, Impact, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I can't watch completed films - my wife makes fun of me.

  Robert Redford

  Fun, Wife, Watches

  Source: www.ew.com

• I think Hollywood... well, there is no Hollywood anymore so let's just call it the mainstream since the business is no longer Hollywood producing its own films and then distributing, they just distribute.

  Robert Redford

  Thinking, Hollywood, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• The mainstream usually follows trends, it seldom sets them except for a few films.

  Robert Redford

  Trends, Film, Mainstream

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.

  Robert Redford

  Confused, Mean, Independent

• 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.

  Robert Redford

  Art, Wall, Fall

  Source: www.esquire.com

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