‘I was quite a maverick kid’ — ‘Fresh Air’ went behind the scenes with Robert Redford

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(Hulton Archive | Getty Images)As a kid in Los Angeles, Academy Award-winning actor Robert Redford wasn’t a good student. … He and I, in the course of that film, became really, really good friends.”Robert Redford knew how to make a thriller Robert Redford could do drama. Robert Redford poses on Main Street decorated with his Sundance Film Festival banners on Jan. 17, 2003, in Park City, Utah. (Douglas C. Pizac | AP)On creating the Sundance Institute and the Sundance Film FestivalSundance basically is a place. The Sundance Film Festival announces its new home: Boulder, Colorado The festival has been a Park City, Utah institution for over 40 years.