Nobody Makes Movies Like Oliver Stone.

Sometimes Perception Is Almost More Important Than The Skill Level Of An Actor. And If You Give Too Much Away, You Have Nothing To Take For Yourself And Put Onscreen. If People Feel Like They Know You Too Well, They Won't Be Able To Indentify With The Character You're Trying To Portray. Or They'll Feel That You're Just Playing Yourself, And Then You Just Become A Personality Actor. And That's The Death Of Any Actor.

You Have To Be A Master To Teach.

I Just Wish The Crowd I Was Associated With Was More Passionate About What They Were Doing And Less Consumed With The Commerce Of The Art Form.

I Was Doing Stand Up Comedy When I Was 11, That's How I Got Started; Not Because I Wanted To Do Comedy, But Because We Were Broke, Living In Echo Park In Downtown Los Angeles, From 1986, I Saw The Rodney King Riots; My Parents Didn't Really Work. But I Wanted A New Backpack, That's How I Got Into This Business - I Wanted A New Backpack.

If I Could Meet My Mother And Marry Her, I Would. I Would Be With My Mother Now, If She Weren't My Mother, As Sick As That Sounds.