Henson, Sacha Baron Cohen, Carol Burnett and Norman Lear.An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his complicated New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface.īefore the international success of Platoon in 1986, Oliver Stone had been wounded as an infantryman in Vietnam, and spent years writing unproduced scripts while driving taxis in New York, finally venturing westward to Los Angeles and a new life. Abrams, Emma Stone, Al Pacino, Julia Roberts, Jerry Seinfeld, Dolly Parton, Will Smith, Taraji P. Past guests include Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Lorne Michaels, Barbra Streisand, George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Jennifer Lawrence, Eddie Murphy, Gal Gadot, Warren Beatty, Angelina Jolie, Snoop Dogg, Jessica Chastain, Stephen Colbert, Reese Witherspoon, Aaron Sorkin, Margot Robbie, Ryan Reynolds, Nicole Kidman, Denzel Washington, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Matthew McConaughey, Kate Winslet, Jimmy Kimmel, Natalie Portman, Chadwick Boseman, Jennifer Lopez, Elton John, Judi Dench, Quincy Jones, Jane Fonda, Tom Hanks, Amy Schumer, Justin Timberlake, Elisabeth Moss, RuPaul, Rachel Brosnahan, Jimmy Fallon, Kris Jenner, Michael Moore, Emilia Clarke, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Helen Mirren, Tyler Perry, Sally Field, Spike Lee, Lady Gaga, J.J. LISTEN: You can hear the entire interview below. But there is a lot of truth to trying to find out why we have to live with hypocrisy.”

People think I’m nuts, you know, like I’m making up things. Pondering if his work on his latest - which covers his life from his “privileged” childhood that was torn about by his parents’ divorce when he was 15, through his time as a volunteer infantryman in Vietnam, through his Hollywood climb and coronation at the Oscars ceremony in 1987 - taught him anything about himself, he mues, “In a way, my life is about fighting back against the lie. The 73-year-old has also written numerous books. In more recent years, he has focused on making documentaries about - and with the cooperation of - Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and Vladimir Putin. and 2010’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Stone, the winner of three Oscars - one for his screenplay for Alan Parker‘s Midnight Express (1978) and the others for directing Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989), which he also wrote - also wrote 1983’s Scarface and 1985’s Year of the Dragon wrote and directed 1986’s Salvador, 1987’s Wall Street, 1991’s The Doors and JFK, 1994’s Natural Born Killers, 1995’s Nixon, 1999’s Any Given Sunday, 2006’s World Trade Center and 2016’s Snowden and directed but did not write 2008’s W. 'TV's Top 5' Goes Into the Writers Guild's Strike Zone

Chasing The Light by Oliver Stone