Robert Redford has broken his silence about the death of his friend and co-star Paul Newman.

In an interview with ABC News, Redford summed up Newman: "This was a man who lived a life that really meant something and will for some time to come."

Redford reflected on Newman's generosity, his pushing the studio to hire Redford for "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid," how Newman taught Redford how to deal with fame, and how they traded practical jokes.

"Paul really likes to have fun and he loves to laugh and he really especially loves to laugh at his own jokes, and some of them are just really awful," Redford said. "So the fact that he enjoyed them so much, you forget about the joke and you'd start to laugh with him because you're so caught up in his enjoyment of them."

What's remarkable about the interview is how Redford, even in sadness, can smile and laugh at the memory of his friend. We should all be remembered so well.

A video clip of the interview is here, and a transcript is here.