Quotes

“In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on.” Robert Redford

“It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.” Robert Redford

“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

“Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.” Robert Redford

“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.” Robert Redford

“Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.” 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

“There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago.” Robert Redford

“Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box.” 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

“What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.” Robert Redford

“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

“The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.” Robert Rodriguez

“Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.” Robert Rodriguez

“What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.” Robert Rodriguez

“Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.” Robert Rodriguez

“Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.” Robert Rodriguez

“A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.” Robert Rodriguez

“I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.” Robert Rodriguez

“When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.” Robert Rodriguez

“Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.” Robert Rodriguez

“People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.” Robert Rodriguez

“You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.” Robert Rodriguez

“I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.'” Robert Rodriguez

“I was the one in charge of the kids growing up.” Robert Rodriguez

“I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.” Robert Rodriguez

“Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.” Robert Rodriguez

“If I'm excited about it, I'm pretty sure an audience is going to enjoy it. If I'm bored with an idea, you can bet they're going to be asleep. So I try to only do things that I'm fairly excited about.” Robert Rodriguez

“Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.” Robert Rodriguez

“Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.” Robert Rodriguez