Redford circa 1970, during the filming of Three Days of the Condor. Art Zelin/Getty Images In 2014, I traveled from Los Angeles to New York to meet Robert Redford for the first and only time. Even as an experienced and somewhat jaded journalist, I was nervous. Not because of Redford's iconic stature, which was beyond doubt; and not because I'd grown up deeply affected by such films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men.