But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
Oliver StoneUnfortunately, the truth is that people do go scot-free and it's unfair. A lot of the top drug people who have been arrested are also free.
Oliver StoneI 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.
Oliver StoneI didn't like my classmates at Yale. George W.Bush was in my class. I didn't know it then.
Oliver StoneYou look at the Russian side: They're defending their territory from the beginning. They move west to destroy the Nazis. And they take out the guts of the German war machine per Winston Churchill, who said that they won the war. From the beginning, we were hostile to the guys who had saved how many American lives by their repulsion of the Nazis? I think the Americans lost 400,000 in the whole war. And the Americans knew it at the time. They gave Joseph Stalin credit. He was the man of the year, cover of Life magazine in 1943; he was a hero.
Oliver Stone