It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.
As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.
Oliver Stone might think he's a guy who chews with his mouth open and yells at the hired help, but the George W. Bush I've spent nearly three hours with is a warm, funny, smart, engaged, compassionate, patriotic, decent and honorable man.
Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.
Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.
I'm a fan of Oliver Stone. I like his movies, I like his excess, and I think he has a great capacity for empathy and it comes out more powerfully in this movie than in any of his other films, even the formal 'I'm identifying with the underdog' movies like 'Born on the Fourth of July.'
Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.
We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.
I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.