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oliver stone brilliant filmmaker who is no stranger to controversy the always outspoken director sat down with me to talk about his life his work and his latest film savages welcome to the recession boys please tell her part of people want to. say you don't mind if you have opiates a little thin and. who are you guys you guys you know you he have a clean business there's no problems there ain't no ben and shawn without so much. just a matter of time guys before they legalize it take the deal instead of the tapper takes. them out. california has made some other great movies ever in this country's the academy award winning director oliver stone and his newest film which i just saw today savages is now playing wide in theaters . across america it is

a terrific movie it's an edge of the seat movie. and all as i said i give you a quote i'll always stone his back he's won't tell me about this movie first how you got to how this came about what was a great novel by don winslow by the same name and i read it in the early galleys form and we bought it i bought it myself with my own money and we ended up making it with universal pictures which is a hard it's a hard r. rated movie you know violence and it has some settings good every isn't really you know some rock n roll in it so it got it was a hard slog to get it made but why did you like it because fresh it was different it's a new take on the marijuana trade you know in california independent growers they're growing it here of the legally but they also do a little illegal operations abroad in the states and the mexican cartel one of the one of the cartels which is hard pressed for cash moves in on them and wants to be a partner in the in the deal like you know like a wal-mart moving in on

a small town and saying we'd like you to be you know help twelve or all eleven of our operation you're also one of the writers yes i am one of the writers of winslow and shane salerno now the casting. to refer for the unbolt liebl from travolta down to three john travolta you haven't seen john travolta as you would see him in a while you know his son passed away and he kind of dropped out from acting for a while he flew out he's a great pilot and if you have flown with him but he's one of the one of the best and he just wasn't interested in movies he read this he loved it and he we talked about it and i said you know let's we do use a mustache do i wear this to what kind of look do i have i said i think you should just go like you are because it was a fascinating face that he's got here plays a duplicitous character breathing but who's and he plays a sleazy da con. who's got connections on both sides of the fence and he plays an

important he is the key role in the movie in a way because i won't give away the ending because we don't want to talk about that but definitely when he's a master he's a master at this also you know the older generation that played it i had three other people and three older people we had been issued del toro is excellent after all plays an enforcer for the cartel and selma cool she'd never seen her quite like this never. she plays a tough day but she's got a heart you know are sentimental aren't for and it's only on weeds three three you are all unknown to me when i start the process of casting blake lively i didn't know from gossip girl she turned up to be and also the town she was very good in the terms of a role but she turned out to be her special striking looking girl ministry of a young grace kelly and aaron johnson is english believe it or not any no i think it's that bad he plays a pacifist a buddhist in the movie and he undergoes quite

a journey to a man who was tested time and again his partner is taylor kitsch who is a wonderful strong loyal buddy and a great looking guy a leading man type. some of the scenes are so dramatically intense there is one scene this film. in which you. burn a guard to death you don't get way too much. cept that's a horrific scene hala take to shoot that was a pleasant experience you know unpleasant we had to get over see the actor but it was a wonderful guy really cause he wanted to do it himself that we used and obviously we want to really story because you know the cartel let's be honest is brutal you know the way the violence we know from mexico there's been almost fifty thousand murders since calderon took over in two thousand and six so it's got ugly for the

money and competitive. you know you don't want to you know want to be able be like this and run away from i didn't want to show the river the all the awful reality because it would have been too much for the audience you don't want to put a guy in a barrel of law yasid watching to soft but there's a rough way of murder there tension leading up to it those tension is a well there's a lot of things like that in the movie i don't want you know the music the river to gradually know oh i like it i like every moment i think it is edge of the edge of the seat thriller and oliver stone as i say is back we'll take a look at a clip from savages that's a good idea i see our ice. is everything. is you know what you might ask. i have to come to the england just to find this out you thought i wasn't going to

notice the premium dollars. since when did you take decisions of your own already made i did. i'm very sorry mother you know. years ago you were you were arrested for marijuana possession yet you think you ought to legalize it already i do personally but and or at least decriminalize it because there are too many people in jail who are good guys good people and also their record in underclass you know there's a lot of people who are african-american in jail it's fifty percent of our prison population since you've been away this prison budget which is bloated up to like the largest per capita in the world we're bigger than russia would be then sure it is so it's a real social problem where blood lives for arresting people for marijuana it and it but i suppose it's about the movie's not really about legalization or it isn't all it's it's about power and also medicinal yeah you know it is and i'm sure you use it anybody who if a pain would stop or it's a very good it's

a very good to use pumps i had but i also want to say california is i've been you know forty years i've been since vietnam i've been smoking off and on and it is the best week in the world in california it's like seriously like french wider california nobody gets that kind of what is it the air of a soil it's because we've adapted our technology to growing better weed we it's certainly the air of the soil but the taking the seeds from all over the world with us jamaica afghanistan mostly afghanistan vietnam thailand these places and making experimentation with the with the with the technology that they have the growing this hydroponically the growth in closets they can grow it right in your house right here you have scenes of my she will be using shoot my cheek all right you know we have scenes there but it's too difficult to shoot there with the insurance issues right now but we shut everything around l.a. . and we're going to be and canyon is north of los angeles the deserts the

northeast of here i was wondering where where they were that way yes those lessons you know what's called mr mason it's a it's a big ranch outside of l.a. i want to take issue that. we did it on a strict schedule of about fifty eight days no kidding then we went to indonesia i'm sorry you're right we did should look at it but sixty five months later we went to indonesia because the actors were again available to shoot something that works into the movie line totoro is a mazing actor and me there's something about him he owns the screen where he's on and people say that you know he doesn't come on that way he very quiet studies it gets his thing he studies he gets ready and he'll do things to death he's medial asked for as many takes as he can get but i don't need that money from him i like his work and i was what i think people could see that they love watching him on the screen oh i he is riveting. ever thought of getting

into the amount of business did you see that once that he was joking and i said the movie business is not that great. and we should legalize other drugs but that's another discussion larry i have my feelings about it makes sense to deal with drugs in general as a medical issue not as a criminal issue and i think you if you don't if you're not hurting other people you know this is the important thing in a way where we where we have a punitive system you know the eighth amendment cruel and unusual punishment i just don't go with this concept of throwing the people in jail since it's not hurting them you know maybe they're hurting themselves but you know let's get the doctors and psychiatrists and people who care about them deal with it. i absolutely agree that never made sense to me you've been referred to all of them we've discussed this in the past as a bad boy. that's sixty five years old who are you no longer

a bad boy i'm a bad old guy. i did this and i i take i pay my taxes you know i generally keep my nose clean i've served in the military over hillary i've been around big movies and people seem to enjoy that i don't know that i have to consider myself a bad boy i just don't believe in a lot of what the establishment thinking is i tend to think for myself which is considered sometimes and you also write a lot i write you've written movies that you didn't direct that's right scarface scarface midnight express you wrote both without direct you know is that hard for you when you're a director and you're the dragon to know it michael to me to. it's hard when you were no i was coming up i wanted to write and direct i was a film school graduate of n.y.u. from seventy one so i really wanted to do this and the way to the avenue to get it done was writing screenwriting so i was with midnight express actually that was

where you had made you run hot yeah that made me what makes a good director who i think it's you have to be a bit of everything a juggler but an artist you have to you have to understand or try to understand character and be willing to. collaborate with a huge group of people including actors simba talk of whose directors of the art directors producers money it's this soup that comes together and then if you survive it and you can make it all work for everybody because but the end of the day or you're the most criticized person everyone knows better than you how to make this movie and in assessing you know watching you and and criticizing your show it's easy to pick on the director but it's really hard to get it together sometimes you see a movie it works the director has done a great job but he doesn't make another movie that makes that works in a way it's a strange chemistry but some directors override and they keep going through time

and i think time is a determinant you direct to charlie sheen in wall street yes i did deep keep in touch with charlie how's he doing i saw him the two and go for a shoot for a platoon reunion and he was very friendly and sweet and slapping us on the back and willing to focus their unfortunately on beringia didn't make it it was a great you know i'm just a party it's hard to tell what charlie know he became another type of person i could see down a wall street after working together in the philippines he was a young kid and he was a bit dreamy and but when we hit wall street with new york city and all that world of the eighty's and the fast life you know i could see the changes he like he likes he likes to party let's be honest and he continued on my douglass said you have a dark side you agree with that. who doesn't. you know when i knew michael in the end on the first wall street he was a romantic lead you know with the catherine turner romancing the stone and no one

thought that he could do a somebody like echo because it was a lot of dialogue and he wasn't known as a dialogue director it was you know if he made a tremendous adjustment to get that movie made and we had our moments we had to push each other perhaps i did a lot of pushing on him but he got better as the movie what and you know what he ended up getting an oscar for a very happy to say magnificent actor and i love working with him again in two thousand and. ten on wall street money never sleeps coming up were you surprised at the backlash yes. i was and there were some ugly things said and done but please look at the day i do apologize that's next on larry king now. leg.

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a look at a parenting book good bad. you have to ask my idea of discipline are you tough i try to be i had two sons and a daughter but we had a divorce and my with my first two children with my daughter and i'm still with her in my bed her mother after she's sixteen then so i who bit harder with her because she said that's age of whether a young woman is sometimes very as it becomes a beast. you know stand on top of her with this with this homework and the the habits and not being lazy and she and the boys let to this boys and there's also social life which is enormously draining takes a lot of time which is a tough school over at harvard westlake right now she said outward bound which is a tough camp where she's really on her own there so you know i believe in that

children can be spoiled that early age and that's the end of them you've got to get them when they're young you know a lot is a different and songs so for me as a man it's my first daughter it's the first it's real challenge of my life your son sean he's a documentary filmmaker right the documentary filmmaker and a hell of a good writer actually i mean converted to islam right so he says you know he converted i think he told the press see and then he told me the spirit of monotheistic god he believes in god and he believes in truth the jewish god the christian god and the muslim god or one is what he said you support him i support him as yes i can endorse he didn't talk to me about it he did it good try to talk about others no no no nor do i think that religious differences should be the basis of war or hurting each other. we have to read this up and ninth in two thousand and ten you were criticized for speaking to the sunday times of london about the jewish domination of the media. now that was

a issue that came up i apologized at the time of the race and i know i wasn't misquoted i said that but i meant what i meant when i said it in london was i was talking about the israeli foreign policy that had such a huge role in american foreign policy abroad where you are referring to as marlon brando the wosm ones and no i was referring to. netanyahu of but not only that the israeli the israeli treatment of palestinians concerns me as well as their position in the middle east with iran and everything across the board and i think you surprised at the backlash yes i am i was and there were some ugly things said and done but at the end of the day i did apologize and it was accepted by the discrimination lay and so forth we did a movie together dave in which you discover that the president isn't the president and it perfectly played to you because they were people think that he was a conspiracy and would j.f.k.

and the like are you into the you things think things that b.b. is to you look at things like i don't trust that and say that's the nature of life if you trust your account you have to find your way you have to find a way who even trust you get married every time you've been married i don't know but you know there are things where you fall that line is complicated it's dark it's really complicated was the word and you know you can't put the blame on others all the time you have to look at yourself in balance in life is complex and i've always accepted that in politics it doesn't the surface is what you're getting and i think in the news to the newspapers and the media i don't really believe that the way that they reported it was that generally in america it's america centric it's about us first on our interest so i look at everything with the. i'm not saying with that that it has to be always an ugly and bad but that you have to look again and look people i involved in this campaign. no i

don't care one bit of money. to give you know i think we've lost control of our process when we allowed the supreme court when the supreme court allowed the bros of the these rich pat has super pacs to make these huge contributions to nobodies who could run anything it's corporation is not going to get money out of politics that we always need it to but it's gotten so much worse that they want your workers are you near candidates in the game it's not a democracy it's an oligarchy where you were buddies kid oh yes you know i had a i think we talked about this once my parents were divorced very early in the and i was an only child so i had no sense of a family after about fourteen and then i was and i actually was at boarding school for three or four years and then i was in vietnam so i went pretty fast you had to be a mom as a volunteer did originally was a schoolteacher and then they became a merchant marine sailor and then i went back as

a volunteer soldier in the infantry as you support of that war actually read i did i was raised a republican my father. did not want me to go but he was a moderate republican and he believed communism was the bane of western civilization had to be stopped in asia. would tune change your life to. among you know i have to say the divorce of my parents was the biggest change i was a spoilt child and privileged child until about this age of fourteen boarding school knocked it out of me pretty fast because it's a very tough place it was the i think still it is but vietnam was the icing on the cake it certainly opened my eyes to the what the poor people in the world and the people who do go into these wars and have to serve and i got a whole other appreciation of what america is really made of it was all put into the tough shoot very hard down fifty fifty and fifty five days in the jungle it was miskito it was a long nights. difficult shoot with very little money but we did it out of love i

mean everybody went over there all the actors they worked long hours into the night great mobile is it true that it was al pacino the first choice for born on the fourth of july he was out with the script of one was written by me for william friedkin to direct it without in the role of covert tenure but even then it was a little bit old for the role but he was wonderful i saw her sit we were down to shoot it almost and what have i. gone there was a heart break the money fell apart. oh it was tax money money and and now moved on to another film and it was the end of it i never thought i'd get made but i told ron kovic if it ever does happen if i ever get lucky i'll come back and we'll do it as sort of a couple if you go around covert kids great shape people to run live one hundred sixty five years old he's in a wheelchair for all these years and he looks still like that. he's strong he's

a strong just as tom cruise would you say honestly he's the hardest working i. tom cruise i'd say he's moved up there he loves the work right the police show to him in the they devote you know tom cruise is will go after this thing until he gets it he was in that wheelchair around l.a. los angeles and new york he was trying to he melded into the role with ron are you workaholic yourself. when i do the work you know i don't want to become one of those people who does a lot of busy stuff with it means something i wrote perfectionist to work for just like in psychiatrist again johnny's or or sad or you have affection is to work for no not at all you know have i understand the nature of this collaboration and it's never there's nothing that's completely right you have to find your way and it says it's his chemistry that exists between you me here or between me and been the issue do you would be actors sometimes uncomfortable doing is obsolete you know it's

there's a free dialogue as it is we have to agree all of us were there and we weigh about one hundred fifty people or standing around right you have to get to a place where you're read to to move forward but definitely the actor. has to feel free enough to say look i i can't do it again i don't get this bring it up you know let's get it all out we have to because but if otherwise or shoot it we're not going to use it and that's worthless did you enjoy doing savages. not particularly you know making movies is i love the idea when i started but it's so hard to make them and as you get older it because you become more of a target you know so it's harder and harder but you know you have to get out of your seat the same way i'm a certain age and i have to go talk to a twenty year old and often i like to talk that i could quietly into the sun and i don't want to do it for everybody so you know you're always moving you're always getting it was changing things you have to think someone said the hardest thing in the world sometimes is to get a movie made i would say to get it made and then not only made making it and then

selling it and release it because the releasing process is so expensive that and it's such a marketing. monster it's often doesn't resemble where you started in the process so you bought the book with your own money right so you had to sell it to universal that's what it did did did they finance it repeatedly you know they did have to say they were not scared of it and once described yourself as crazy for many years why did you quit i did say that you know what did you better be you either boy crazy or you're bored bori so like that those early in my life. this show by the way will be viewed online will be seen on hulu what do you make of technology where's all this go on. your piece of notice is what are the other avenues are scary funny guy i'm a writer and now all of a you once put it to my wife you forget that when you did the doors we were doing

an interview you said maybe i'll do you live but you abandon all of our loved ones and make you know. that the doors was fun to make thank you it was a hell of a movie but what do you make of technology. it's it's like a it's like fire it's both good and bad you know it's like it can be used for the purposes also it can be used for very nefarious purposes like surveillance. or invasion of privacy very what's next for you. i'm working for almost four years now off and on on untold history of the united states to ten hour show it's on show time in this year late this year it goes from one hundred forty five to two thousand and twelve it's the history it's here all over bad boy it's history upside down takes all the mythologies we learned in school and says questions actors no

actors all classical narrative great footage arc archives narration and actors doing voices of some of the principals who god thanks for joining us hope you enjoyed oliver stone join us next time on larry king now.

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