Actor/director Albert Brooks, best known for such first rate comedies as Lost in America and Defending Your Life, gives a mesmerizing performance as crime syndicate head Bernie Rose in Drive.  With a passion for knives, Rose dispatches his victims sans gunplay, and his latest target is a wheelman (Ryan Gosling) who unwittingly botched his latest operation.

“I like the acting part of acting,” says Brooks, who also delivered first rate work in the George Clooney drama Out of Sight.  “And one of the things that movies can do is put you in real situations and put you in a real place and put you in different clothes and if you can do the rest, you can convince people you are someone else.  It’s not difficult if you could pull it off.”

Albert Brooks explains why Hollywood is a “commodity” driven business:

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