I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.

A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: "He was a man; sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but he was a man." I love that line.

There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today.

I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.

I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.

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.

There's an electrical thing about movies.