It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

In any film there's always a historical implication.

I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

People will go to clean theaters; they don't like to go to dirty theaters.

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.