Robert Redford Quotes

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.

I directed my first music video for Sara Bareilles. I like writing and directing. I co-wrote '21 Jump Street' and I'm in that. To me, they all inform the other one. I think writing makes you a better actor, acting makes you a better writer, directing makes you better at both. To me, I'm just trying to learn as much as possible.

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

The thing I really love about film is there's a really big sense of teamwork, and everyone has to do their job to the best of their ability to make the film work in the first place.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.

Directing is its own monster with its own set of muscles and exercises.

I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.

I think making a film is as much knowing what you don't like as what you do like, and avoiding the things that you don't like like the plague and making sure that they never appear onscreen in any shape or form.

In order to make a film, you have to operate on many different levels, making all these different forms of expression converse, and so I just followed that intuition.

People think a director teaches acting. But in good films a director doesn't.

I love directing, It means so much to me to direct stories about subject matter that I care deeply about. I can act in many things, and you can try to experience different characters, but to direct is years of your life and you have to really love it and believe in it.

The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.

Directing was a transformative experience for me, one that I really enjoyed.

I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.

I'm always writing, but directing takes priority over everything, unless the acting is a job that lifts that whole brand. If I get a part in a big film with a big director and I was going to direct one of my one films, I would take the former job because that job will only help anything that I then intend to do. I think in the long run, directing is the thing that will outlive everything else. Maybe that and writing.

Making a film is very hard work, and you live or die by the sword just a little bit every time you do it, but I wouldn't chuck it in.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.

Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that.