The legendary actor and director looks back on his prolific career.
“I’d never really done a comedy before,” says Redford.
“And Nichols had never directed theater, so we both shared a bit of insecurity.”
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“But George got excited and thought, ‘Hmm, I’m going to make this work.
The only thing they did was changethe title.
It also earned Redford his sole acting nomination.
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He attributes the lion’s share of the success to his director.
“George Roy Hill loved reading the funny papers.
“He was a bit of a Ken doll with no dimension.
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I said, ‘I’ll be interested if we can find some flaws in him.'”
Speaking of flaws, Redford had been warned that his costar possessed a few.
I loved working with her.
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We had a ton of fun.”
“They were all gossiping about a break-in at a campaign headquarters,” he says.
Every scene where the typewriter is used, there’s a real bang.
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What does it sound like?
It sounds like a weapon.”
When I asked her to be in the film, she wanted it even more than I did.
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She wanted to explore that side of herself and gave 100 percent."
“It’s all about how audiences are tricked.
That’s a story about much more than one quiz show in the ’50s.”
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All Is Lost(2013)
For this minimalist action film by directorJ.C.
“This was guerrilla filmmaking all the way around,” he says.
“No special effects, just raw-to-its-core filmmaking.
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It was very tough, but I loved it.
I loved the feeling of pure cinema in my bloodstream.”
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