Oliver Stone
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314 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Apr 2025
Oliver Stone’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It becomes a double-edged sword.
That's probably true. It's probably true, yeah. We were having issues on the first. It was the wrong. He approached it. I have to say, he may not agree with me. He's right. But he approached the movie like it was the streets of San Francisco or something. You know, one of the TV series that he did. It was just not the depth that I was looking for. I needed to. He was a major figure in the film.
He was the antagonist. And frankly, he got an Academy Award, so something happened. He deepened in that movie as an actor. What do you tell him, though? What do you tell him? Well, you have to, first of all, deal with it. You have to deal with what you're seeing. I mean, you may not be right. It might be too subjective. But tell the actor, be honest.
If it's the time to be honest, sometimes you hold back.
You have to be. You have to tell the truth to some degree. You can't just fake it. I hate those directors who always say, oh, great job, great job. The words become meaningless. The currency, useless. You have to have some truth factor in all your relationships. Otherwise, you're a boutique. Otherwise, you're just being a showman. You're a traffic cop.
I think I was famous for walking on eggshells.
No, I don't. I never said that on purpose unless something was going wrong. You know, for example, let's say an actress comes in and she's more concerned about.
She's more concerned about her, the way she looks and the way she doesn't give a damn about the movie or the other people. It's just her. And when you have that kind of egocentric personality, you have to. You have to move away from that. You have to get more into the shadows.
You have to start dealing with that psyche, and that's not easy sometimes because some people are very hung up on themselves. How much of it is private? How much of it is public around everybody? You know something? That's a good question because usually I keep everything private, but the crew feels it. The crew knows. In fact, sometimes the crew knows ahead of the director. You hear the words.
You know, the ADs, they talk, and... The Cameron crews are very sharp. They've been on a lot of movies. If the actress or actor is a dud, they know it. And they'll let you know it. If he or she is not up to par, they'll let you know. It's an interesting thing that goes on. It's dynamic. By the way, let me ask you this.
Yeah, I just asked him and he was very friendly about it. Yeah, he was making a comeback at that time. Was he upset that he was not the guy playing in Wall Street? No, because he was a younger man. It was another kind of time. 20 years had passed. So, in other words, Gekko was 60. Coming out of jail and Creed and all this stuff. He's coming up with his book launch. Yes, another young man.
And Josh Brolin was playing a key role. He was playing the Gekko role as a young man. Oh, I'm sorry. So that was a whole different ballgame.
If you like Gordon Gekko as a father, you might kill yourself too. Yeah, I'm looking at this. That was a great cast. And Frank Langella, I have to say, played an old tycoon. He was perfect.
I had empty calories feeling. It's certainly watchable. It's good, well-made Ridley film, but I didn't care about the people. I wasn't invested. Your comparison of one versus two. One was a classic. Two was empty calories. Like a commercial product.
Because you're a gladiator yourself. You know, you're powerful. And you probably didn't like the physique of the guy as much.
He said he was dead. His character was dead. It's all fiction anyway. There was nothing realistic about it.
Well, first of all, I would have conceived a different script. But it's important. It's a new concept. That was the way it was created, and maybe that's good. What does the dinosaur film have to do with the previous dinosaur film? Jurassic World. Jurassic World. What does that have to do with it? Why would you talk to the previous dinosaur?
Everything, yeah. It's a whole experience. It's a life. No, I don't focus on one part or aspect of it.
I love movies. I love movies, too, from your lens. There's actually three, four hundred. I mean, he knows. I watch old movies along with new movies. So I mix it up, and I get confused sometimes as to what... I don't remember all the things I saw. Give me a list and I'll tell you.
Sound of Music. Really? You know, there are old movies. That's one of my dad's favorites. There's hundreds of movies that are great. Listen, if we stopped making movies now and no more movies were made, I'd be fine. I mean, there's enough there for the rest of time, you know, honestly. And also, I discover old movies that I didn't see, which is a wonderful experience.
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