"I wasn't learning the way I was supposed to learn,"
"I think I realized that my education was going to happen when I got out in the world and engaged with other cultures, other places, other languages, and had the adventure of exploration."
"Because of the age difference between Paul and I, which was like 12, 13 years, and he was really well-known and I was not well-known ... the studio did not want me,"
"When I met Paul he was very generous, and he said, 'I'll do it with Redford.' I never forgot that. ... He and I, in the course of that film, became really, really good friends."
Robert Redford grew up in Los Angeles and often struggled in school, finding himself drawing and looking outward rather than learning in conventional ways. He pursued college in Colorado for the mountains and developed a lifelong connection to nature. Redford achieved a breakout role in the 1969 Western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, where Paul Newman’s support helped secure his casting and forged a lasting friendship. He appeared in more than 80 films, then shifted to directing in 1980, feeling it aligned with his artistic roots. In 1981 he founded the Sundance Institute to develop and promote independent filmmakers and to support labs that reduce the influence of competition and money while fostering creative development.
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