Speaking of movies, who does a star actor like James Woods think is good?
“The Coen Brothers are phenomenal, just great filmmakers. As actors, Russell Crowe I always find very compelling. If you take away the tabloid stuff, and the big movie stuff, like Gladiator, if you look at his work in LA Confidential, I thought he was fantastic, and really good in The Insider – and terrific in Gladiator, by the way. It’s not easy to do that stuff seriously. You have to get over the sand and sandals kind of clichéd look and do it with a commitment, which he did. It’s not easy to do. I find myself compelled by him. DeNiro is still one of our greatest actors. Robert Redford understands film acting better than anybody on the face on the earth. You know how some carnivores get every bit of meat off of a carcass they can? Well, there’s nobody who gets as much blood out of a moment as Redford. Within the range of his talent he knows how to get every single note available, and he is a genius not only at getting those notes but in making them fully accessible to his audience. H
