As the 2014 Sundance Film Festival winds down to a close, the man who founded the event 30 years ago, actor-director Robert Redford, sat down to talk about the festival, this year's films, and some of his own upcoming roles.

Robert Redford in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

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One role he discussed was his upcoming stint as Alexander Pierce in Captain America: The Winter Soldier . Considering that Redford's last film was the critically lauded All is Lost, a thrilling one-man survival film featuring almost no dialogue at all, one wonders why the 77-year old would choose to follow a tour-de-force with a secondary role in a comic book movie.“One of the reasons that I did [Captain America: The Winter Soldier] was I wanted to experience this new form of filmmaking that’s taken over where you have kind of cartoon characters brought to life through high technology,” Redford explains. “The Avengers series is a product of high technology playing a major role in the new order of filmmaking so I wanted to experience that—I just wanted to know what that was like and I had that opportunity, so for me it was like stepping into new terrain just to experience what it was like.”You've got to respect an actor of Robert Redford's caliber who wants to continue stretching himself and pursue new experiences. It's easy for legendary actors to see certain projects as "beneath" them, but Redford displays an earnest desire to learn everything he can about his evolving craft.Captain America: The Winter Soldier hits theaters April 4, 2014.Via Entertainment Weekly

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