Phrases

-What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?

-Sometimes the failures can be exciting and fun. It’s just a step on the road, it’s not the end of something.

-I guess some mistakes you never stop paying for.

-Success is a tricky mistress. It’s nice to have but it’s a tricky thing to embrace.

-Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

-Not taking a risk is a risk. That’s how I see it.

-I think “quiet” sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can’t be expressed.

-Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

-If you can do more, you should.

-Never revisit the past, that’s dangerous. You know, move on.

-Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

-Whenever there’s chaos, there’s ambiguity, and where there’s ambiguity, there’s fear. And fear gets manipulated.

-I have no regrets, because I’ve done everything I could to the best of my ability.

-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?

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

-We’ve lost our moral foundation, which allows us to go this far over. So I don’t blame Trump. I just think he is what he is. We’re the ones who let that happen. We should be looking at ourselves.

-The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it

-Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It’s a fact of life, like contradictions are.

-The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

-Have a strong vision about the story you want to tell and how you want to tell it.

-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.

-All my life I’ve been dogged by guilt because I feel there is this difference between the way I look and the way I feel inside.

-Other people have analysis. I have Utah.

-I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains.

-A lot of what acting is is paying attention.

-I’m gonna die but I haven’t thought about retiring.

-I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it’s the beginning of dying.

-I don’t think about when it’s going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.

-I’m not a facelift person. I am what I am.

-Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

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

-…if our humanity – our soul as a society – is overtaken by the materiel and cosmetic, there will be no hope of peace.

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

-‘Butch Cassidy’ was the only film I ever enjoyed making.

-When did Noah build the boat? – Before the rain.

-I guess there are different ways to handle success. You can multiply it financially and use it to multiply your net worth. That’s always been very appealing to me.

-I’ve been very fortunate in that I’ve had wonderful relationships with people I’ve worked with.

-There’s a lot of money to be made by strip-mining and drilling the dirtiest oil on the planet. But why should the rest of us pay the price?

-If you could ever do a project that really has magic in it, and justifiable magic, you should do it.

-I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

-The tough thing about adulthood is it starts before you even know it starts.

-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.

-San Franciscans are very proud of their city, and they should be. It’s the most beautiful place in the world.

-Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

-I was producing things I was acting in, but I had never directed and I felt it was time. I was looking for a piece of material that was about behavior and feelings. When I read Judith Guest’s book, I thought, This is it.

-It’s an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

-Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood – I was born next door.

-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.

-People have been so busy relating to how I look, it’s a miracle I didn’t become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

-Utah is changing. There are good people in Utah. More people want to change the discriminatory laws than want to keep them. People should be able to marry whomever they love.
-When I became successful, I put up a caution. I didn’t think it was fair to have the shadow of that kind of success thrown on my family. And I was cautious about being taken by things that could destroy you.

-I don’t know what your childhood was like, but we didn’t have much money. We’d go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.

-When I grew up, shame was used as a tool for check and balance. If you stood a chance of hearing someone say, “Shame on you,” or “You should be ashamed of yourself,” you thought twice. It doesn’t seem to be a factor today.

-For me, personally, skiing holds everything. I used to race cars, but skiing is a step beyond that. It removes the machinery and puts you one step closer to the elements. And it’s a complete physical expression of freedom.

-I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did – meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, ’cause you yourself hadn’t shown up yet.

-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.
-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.

-I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to somebody talk. I wanted to be out, educated by experience and adventure, and I didn’t know how to express that.

-It seems everyone in Hollywood is getting pinched, lifted and pulled. I’m looking weird because I’m not.

-He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.

-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.

-As an artist I just can’t think of a better life than the one I’ve been blessed with. It’s just a great ride.

-I think you just keep going. I’ve been that way, my whole life.

-He’s meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules – a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness – the temptations of life.

-What we are living with is the result of human choices and it can be changed by making better, wiser choices.

-I used to feel competitive about a career, but now the only things I’m really passionate about are my family, the environment and Indians.

-It’s all about greed and money and it’s the driving force in Hollywood.

-I don’t see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me ‘hay head.’

-Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would… make money.

-Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.

-Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It’s harder and harder to find what the truth is.

-I didn’t want the attacks to affect me. I don’t believe you should be led by fear.

-The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it’s not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.

-When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would’ve had a better time.

-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?

-I’m not good at compromise.

-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.

-You should prepare when you go to a public event to be public. That’s when I will sign autographs. But not when you’re going about your normal business.