Independence is a state of mind. Independence is spirit without category.

I feel like I am what I am.

One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.

When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, "That's not an Oliver Stone film." But I don't know what to do about that except just move on.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

I love films. I love fiction films, too. I do. I love making them, but it has to be the right one. Hopefully, I'll never become a director for hire. It's horrible to make a film that you're not really interested in.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.