PLAYBOY: Do you believe in an afterlife?
REDFORD: I'm not sure I do. I've explored every religion, some very deeply, enough to know there's not one philosophy that can satisfy me. Problems can't be solved with one way of thinking. If anything is my guide, nature is. That's where my spirituality is. I don't believe in organized religion, because I don't believe people should be organized in how they think, in what they believe. That has never been driven home as hard as with the [Bush] administration. When somebody thinks God speaks to him, you've got trouble. If God is speaking to the president, he's speaking with a forked tongue, because the behavior of this administration doesn't seem very godlike or spiritual. ... Is there an afterlife? As far as I know, this is it. It's all we’ve got. You take your opportunities and you go for it.

"... I’m not so confident to say that I’m an atheist, so I’d prefer to say I’m an agnostic."

"I believe that life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary."

"Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues."

"He thought organized religion was all right for many people, but did not partake of it himself."