Robert Redford: 'I live in great doubt'

Robert Redford has confessed that he experiences "great doubt" in his daily life.

In an interview with PopEater, the Conspirator director revealed that he spends a great deal of time worrying about his personal and career decisions but is unable to stop himself from doing so.

"I think a lot of things. Like I live in doubt, great doubt about everything," he explained.

"I come from a very dark family, Irish immigrant family, quite poetic of mind but dark in outlook because they suffered so much in the past. My family says if something good happens there must be something wrong with it. There's that, there's the doubt that every artist has."

He continued: "I worry about things I don't need to worry about which is a waste of time. I'm very critical. I'm way too critical, that makes life hard and then there's just I think the idea that whatever you're doing is never quite as good as you want it to be and you have to live with that. I'm hardly someone who looks like he rode in on a golden horse."

Redford recently announced the launch of Sundance London, a four-day film festival to be held in the capital which will feature "the best in independent American cinema".