I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.

I didn't like my classmates at Yale. George W.Bush was in my class. I didn't know it then.

If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What is this self-love? Where does this come from? It got worse, because after the war we thought we'd won it. That's the first myth. Frankly, Russia won it. The Soviet Union sacrificed far greater form than anyone else to win that war. Secondly, we had the atomic bomb. We should not have dropped it on Japan. We did as an example to the Soviets, not to defeat Japan and to save American lives. These are myths that we explode with a lot of research early on.

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.

You always try to find the right style for the movie. That's the key.

We should look to (Castro) as one of the Earth's wisest people, one of the people we should consult.