Here is what Stone said:
I’ve been passionately driven, and you unfortunately pay a price for it. Probably right now, I’m on a blacklist, a greylist, or whatever that is, because I did interviews with Putin. You know, they’re so nuts in Hollywood, they’re so virtuous, you have to express your virtue, you have to wear your ribbon that says how conscious you are about political correctness, or you can call it wokeness, I can’t stand that stuff, that’s why I went to Vietnam, to get away from all those things.
But the real reason that Oliver Stone is finding it hard to get funding for a new project is that his last several movies have been duds and he has also been exposed as an idiot.
There is nothing wrong in interviewing Putin. But there was no need to slobber all over him.
I don't have children. But if I did, I would hope that I would love them just as much as Oliver Stone loves Vladimir Putin.
Stone's last major motion picture was Snowden and the box office was only $37.3 million while it cost $40 million to make.
His other films have been ridiculous documentaries on a variety of dictators and his poorly-received JFK documentary series JFK Revisited. His documentary, Nuclear Now, which actually had some merit, returned less than $50,000 at the box office.
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