Barely finished the interview, Oliver Stone asks us to turn our recorder back on.
He has something to add.
We do.
Its speed, already fast, is accelerating.
“Because I was new, she, like many others, caricatured me as a macho warrior, despising women, conspiratorial.
But I am not that person.
She confused me with my characters.
I'm not Richard Boyle, the mad journalist from
Salvador.
I am not George Bush, Jim Morrison, or Richard Nixon.
I put myself in my protagonist's head when I write a script for a year, but that doesn't mean I'm that person. ”
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"She"
is Pauline Kael, the critic of the
New Yorker
, her best enemy.
When Stone is pointed out that he often refers to her in his autobiography,
In Search of the Light
, he sighs.
“His opinion didn't matter to me, but it counted for the box office
.
My scripts and films have often been criticized for their brutality, but I had this violence
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