Time Finds Robert Redford in Denial: ‘I’m Not a Left-Wing Person’
Time's Ten Questions to Robert Redford drew some silly answers — like Redford denying he's a lefty. How helpful or harmful to your career has it been to be known as someone who is passionate about politics? I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains. [My last film,] Lions for Lambs , got rough treatment, and I think it was because — and I don't want to sound defensive — but I think it was misperceived. I'm not a left-wing person. I'm just a person interested in the sustainability of my country. So the major political conflicts of our time are between the conservatives and the sustainers? Someone needs to tell Redford that when you favor massive government intervention to “save the planet” and back liberal Democrats for president, that makes you a “left-wing person.” Or perhaps he can see that making films seen as left-wing propaganda efforts are box-office bombs, so he's trying to . Redford's leftism is on display later in the same interview:
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