{"id":47895,"date":"2025-09-16T20:46:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/robert-redford-theres-only-the-trying\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T20:46:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:46:25","slug":"robert-redford-theres-only-the-trying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/robert-redford-theres-only-the-trying\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Redford: &#8220;There&#8217;s only the trying&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>He&#8217;s a Hollywood Legend. Those of you who tuned in for our Friday night special, saw some of <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/robert-redford-the-old-man-and-the-gun\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Lee Cowan&#8217;s chat with Robert Redford<\/a><\/span>. But we wanted more.  Which is why, happily, this morning their conversation continues&#8230;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Robert Redford just wouldn&#8217;t look right in a city. He&#8217;s spent most of his life in places with more rocks than people, like his 250-acre ranch outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can see why this had impact on me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;When I saw that and I realized, well, there was a great part of America that used to look that way. But there&#8217;s less and less of it now. So, why don&#8217;t I buy some land here where I can preserve at least this view?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His love of nature is as much his signature as his windswept hair. <\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s perhaps one scene from one of his most famous movies, &#8220;Butch Cassidy &amp; the Sundance Kid,&#8221; that best sums up how Redford has lived his life: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sundance Kid, gunfighter:\u00a0 &#8220;Can I move? <br \/>Man: &#8220;Move? What the hell ya&#8217; mean, move?&#8221;<br \/><em>Sundance shoots, hits his target.<\/em> <br \/>&#8220;Sundance Kid: &#8220;I&#8217;m better when I move.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-youtube-video embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-video\">\n<p>\n    <iframe class=\"embed__content lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/_AoCK5r2TWg?autoplay=0&amp;rel=1\" data-optanon-category=\"essential\" data-height=\"270\" data-width=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/p><figcaption>\n    <span class=\"embed__caption\"><br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_AoCK5r2TWg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sundance Kid: &#8216;Can I move?&#8217;<\/a><\/cite> by<br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCgK45J9SvBNvnADk7pNWmQg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Andy Gayton<\/a><\/cite> on<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cowan asked, &#8220;Is that true for you in real life?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, I think so. I like movement. I always have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At 82, he says <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/robert-redford-the-old-man-and-the-gun\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">it&#8217;s time to move on from acting<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s hard for me to hear that when you say it might be your last [role],&#8221; Cowan said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hard for me to say it!&#8221; Redford replied. &#8220;You don&#8217;t like talking about your end. I mean, who does? I can&#8217;t do this forever. I&#8217;ve been doing it since I was 21. As you move into your 80s, you say, hey, that&#8217;s enough, that&#8217;s enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not exactly retirement; he&#8217;ll still direct and produce. But as far as big screen performances, he says, it&#8217;s time to go.<\/p>\n<p>His last role offers one more chance to show off his charm and wry smile. <\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;The Old Man &amp; the Gun,&#8221; he plays an aging bank robber on the run. The story is based on a real man, Forrest Tucker, who started robbing banks as a teenager in the late 1930s and never stopped.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-youtube-video embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-video\">\n<p>\n    <iframe class=\"embed__content lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/IdLQb9zN9OE?autoplay=0&amp;rel=1\" data-optanon-category=\"essential\" data-height=\"270\" data-width=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/p><figcaption>\n    <span class=\"embed__caption\"><br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IdLQb9zN9OE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">THE OLD MAN &amp; THE GUN | Trailer 2 [HD] | FOX Searchlight<\/a><\/cite> by<br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/FoxSearchlight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FoxSearchlight<\/a><\/cite> on<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;This is not only a true story, but I can connect with it very, very easily, because of the whole idea of an outlaw,&#8221; Redford said. \u00a0&#8220;I think probably I must&#8217;ve been born with an outlaw sensibility, in terms of my nature, yeah. Because from the time I was just a little kid, I was always wanting to go away from the rules. I wanted to \u2013 I didn&#8217;t want to <em>break<\/em> any, I just didn&#8217;t want to be held by them. In kindergarten, I ran away three times!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was born in Santa Monica, Calif., in the shadow of Hollywood, but had no interest in movies as a career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I grew up in kind of a rough neighborhood,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;d go to matinees, any time there was a love scene on the screen, we&#8217;d go, &#8216;Oh boo, you tell &#8217;em lover,&#8217; you know, and make fun of the scene.\u00a0 Suddenly, the idea that I would be that guy is just too much for me to take!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He, of course, came to define what a leading man was \u2013 full of character and charisma.\u00a0 The camera loved him.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Cowan said, &#8220;I&#8217;d read where you said, as the success got bigger and bigger, that you felt a certain danger in the air. What was the danger?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Success,&#8221; said Redford. &#8220;I think success is a double-edged sword. You want to shadowbox with it, but you don&#8217;t want to embrace it or dance too close.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, good looks are not something to be shy about, but did you feel that sometimes people were looking at that instead of looking at the work?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah. I did. And in the beginning, it was a surprise to me, because I didn&#8217;t see myself that way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You didn&#8217;t see yourself as good-looking?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, no, no, I didn&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Really?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So therefore, when it happened, I was kind of taken back. And I thought, well, I guess it could be worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Redford starred in hit after hit, but many of those films he&#8217;s never watched. Cowan asked, &#8220;How many have you not seen?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know. I haven&#8217;t ever counted &#8217;em, but a lot. &#8216;Cause I thought if I look at myself too much, I&#8217;m gonna be too aware of myself and that means when I go to do something new, I won&#8217;t be able to do it without being slightly aware of what I&#8217;m doing rather than just being free. How about <em>you?<\/em> How do you feel about it? You must see yourself on these shows as the interviewer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, I&#8217;ve got to be honest, I don&#8217;t watch myself, either,&#8221; Cowan said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then we have that in common. This is really great!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You really don&#8217;t like anything you&#8217;ve done?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not much,&#8221; Redford said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Really?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Uh-huh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I guess it has a lot to do with, you do something, then move on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He moved on to directing, where he won an Oscar for &#8220;Ordinary People.&#8221; Its tale of depression wasn&#8217;t an easy lift, but that&#8217;s what Redford was looking for \u2013 something different. <\/p>\n<p>He produced and acted in &#8220;All the President&#8217;s Men<em>,&#8221; <\/em>which<em> <\/em>was another hard sell.\u00a0 &#8220;Watergate: The Movies&#8221; was an idea few relished, including the publisher of The Washington Post, Katharine Graham, who begged Redford not to make it. &#8220;She said, &#8216;Okay, I can&#8217;t stop you from making the film, but, please, do not have me in it. You have to honor me that.&#8217; So I said, &#8216;Okay, I will.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When she saw the film, she said, &#8216;I&#8217;m sorry I told you not to have me in the film!'&#8221; he laughed. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-youtube-video embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-video\">\n<p>\n    <iframe class=\"embed__content lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/FEdL1_zOyz4?autoplay=0&amp;rel=1\" data-optanon-category=\"essential\" data-height=\"270\" data-width=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/p><figcaption>\n    <span class=\"embed__caption\"><br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FEdL1_zOyz4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All the President&#8217;s Men (9\/9) Movie CLIP &#8211; People&#8217;s Lives Are in Danger (1976) HD<\/a><\/cite> by<br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/movieclips\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Movieclips<\/a><\/cite> on<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cowan asked, &#8220;With all the political involvement that you&#8217;ve had over your career, I&#8217;ve never seen you stump for any individual candidate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why is that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I first learned that when I was just starting out.\u00a0 I was an actor who was suddenly being asked to appear with candidates that were political.\u00a0 I thought, &#8216;Wow, that&#8217;s an honor, somebody wants to have me stand up there with them.&#8217;\u00a0 No; they wanted me there to attract a crowd.\u00a0 I realized I was being used. So, okay, no more of this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Did you ever think of running for anything yourself?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No. That would be a disaster!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s had great success as a protector of independent film. His Sundance Institute, in Utah, and later the Sundance Film festival, became the garden from which many Oscar-winning independent films grew. <\/p>\n<p>Redford says he didn&#8217;t expect Sundance to grow into what it has become: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t think it would last past two or three years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost <em>too <\/em>big now, he confesses, at least for a man as private as Redford. Like most things, he&#8217;s proud of it, but that&#8217;s about as far as he&#8217;ll go. <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s fond of a saying by T.S. Eliot: \u00a0&#8220;&#8216;There&#8217;s only the trying. The rest is not our business.&#8217; It&#8217;s one of my favorite phrases. Because you can&#8217;t guarantee where the trying is going to get you. So, you can&#8217;t guarantee the result. The only thing there is in its place is the trying. That&#8217;s where the action is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For a man so at home in the mountains, it seems he&#8217;s enjoyed the climb more than his time at the summit, but easing into retirement, he admits the view from the top wasn&#8217;t half-bad. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At a certain point, I was getting so much attention that I began to think, Hey, I guess maybe I <em>am<\/em> a pretty big deal!&#8221; he laughed. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-gallery is-gallery embed--float-left embed--size-medium\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pictures\/robert-redford\/\" class=\"content__link embed__link\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2015\/04\/23\/81fe36fe-49cb-44df-8c53-407399e37d77\/thumbnail\/620x349\/1e15671b0ad3f2f20165660c19b89868\/robert-redford-barefoot-protrait-promo.jpg#\" alt=\"Robert Redford \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2015\/04\/23\/81fe36fe-49cb-44df-8c53-407399e37d77\/thumbnail\/620x349\/1e15671b0ad3f2f20165660c19b89868\/robert-redford-barefoot-protrait-promo.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2015\/04\/23\/81fe36fe-49cb-44df-8c53-407399e37d77\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/fd74b3985b8dface4f3b5ebdccb110ea\/robert-redford-barefoot-protrait-promo.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <\/a><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pictures\/robert-redford\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>                      <span class=\"embed__icon\"><br \/>\n              <svg viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n                <use xlink:href=\"#icon-gallery\"\/>\n              <\/svg><br \/>\n            <\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__headline\">Robert Redford<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                      <span class=\"embed__gallery-count\">57 photos<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>See also: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>For more info:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Story produced by Peter Goodman.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"chartbeat\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation component--type-recirculation-collection\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/robert-redford-theres-only-the-trying\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s a Hollywood Legend. 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