Robert Redford

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Robert Redford came to fame as an outlaw and, movie legend or no, he sees himself as an outsider still.A good Spanish speaker, Redford lived five years in a little town in the south of Spain at the end of the fifties and grew up in south Los Angeles, surrounded by a Spanish community. Good friend of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 
You grew up in a Spanish Community in Los Angeles, and lived in Spain for a long time, do you speak Spanish?   
I do speak Spanish but I don't practice as much as I would like, so right now I don't speak as I used to in the past.  
 
 
Q. Do you have a favorite Spanish author?  
 
A. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a good friend of mine who helped me to develop The Motorcycle Diaries , the movie that Walter's Salles directed and I produced. I invited Marquez many times to Sundance to come to help start a Spanish speaking lab and he promised me to come if I was going to Cuba   
 
Q. Is there a book from him that you like most of the others?  
 
A. I liked all of them, but Hundred Years of Solitude is my favorite, and Love in the times of cholera is a great love story.  
 
Q. What types of books, or stories are you drawn to?  
 
A. 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.     
 
Q. What you want to be remembered for?  
 
A. I've thought about that. I would like to be known for the work I've done in films and the work I've done as a citizen. And that's fine with me, and with my family, I want to be known as a good father. And that's it. Beyond that it's just don't stop me. Let me keep doing what I want to do. Because there's a lot to be done, there are a lot of things I'd like to do, and I'm enjoying it. So that's all I have, I don't ask for title or award or anything like that. It's just to be acknowledged for what you do, maybe rather what you symbolize.  
 
Q. What do you do when not working?  
 
A. I have a lot of interests. The Sundance Film Festival commands a lot of time. I have other interest that I like but there's nothing more interesting for me than the work I do in film, whether acting or directing. That is the most, that's' my day job. I also have the other life, an alternative life, just in the mountains and nature, and you therefore want to enjoy that. Then you build a mechanism for new artists, a community for artists, in theater and film and music, and eventually dance. Travel is another of my passions. There's nothing I love more than driving across this country.  
 
Q. How is independent film these days?  
 
A. Independent film is getting better and better all the time, as are documentaries. I think documentaries are now at a place where they absolutely deserve an equal place in the market.

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