Tim Robbins

And I think the idea that Andy had the long plan and could see a future that was brighter

I think that's something that people want to believe in.

I also believe that it's one of the very few rare stories where you see a male friendship that is not contingent upon car chases or skirt chasing.

It's not a buddy movie, which I've done a few of.

It's a movie about a real friendship between two men.

A love story in a lot of ways.

I just appreciate it for everything it is.

What a gift it has been.

Because when people come up to me and talk to me about that film, it's not like I love that film.

It's that that film changed me.

That film made me think in a different way.

Not to mention the times that I've talked to people that have been incarcerated.

And I do work with people in LA and California that have been incarcerated.

The Actors Gang has prison programs.

We do rehabilitation inside the California correctional system.

And what that movie means to those that have been incarcerated is profound.

This idea of hope.

This idea that freedom can be achieved even in the direst circumstances.

So it's about what's inside.

That's why Andy survives.