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Robert Redford, the Hollywood golden boy who became an Oscar-winning director, liberal activist and godfather for independent cinema under the name of one of his best-loved characters, died Tuesday at 89._ --- Sep 16, 2025 7:20 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Oscar-Winning Actor Martin Landau Dies at 89](/video/CZPYRWpG/) ### Oscar-Winning Actor Martin Landau Dies at 89 [Robert Redford Explains the Sundance Effect](/video/0fLDD8s1/) ### Robert Redford Explains the Sundance Effect [10 Questions for Robert Redford](/video/97CgxKNv/) ### 10 Questions for Robert Redford --- ## Transcript We honor him for that today and thank him. But when you look hard at that contract with America. You pretty hard pressed to find where the American people fit into that contract? Well, that ought to do it. Ain't used enough dynamite there, Butch. When I started the festival in 1985. This doesn't work. I'm not going to hang around pumping it or beating a dead horse. If it does work, then if it ever ceases to service a need Or to be irrelevant. That'll be the end of that. My feeling is this all this is Bob Woodward of The Washington Post. Could I talk to Mr. Clawson, please? This is a society divided by fear, hatred and violence. And until we talk about just what this society really is, then I don't know how we're going to change it. To me, there's no greater reward than to be honored by the people you you work with. So, of course, I'm very, very moved by it. This allowed me to just be an actor again, because that's how I started. And there's a lot of pressure and there's a lot of weight to being a director and particularly a director producer. Um, so I loved it, and I would like to continue that. I don't want to have to act and direct every time I go out. I like the idea of just acting. I love directing, yes, but. But I think just acting, I like that a lot. 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