10 Questions for Oliver Stone

It's irrelevant. He's got a face that people like and forgive. Arnold is one of the great faces of the 20th and 21st centuries. He's taken humanity to the cyborg stage, truly. Even at the time of Conan, we knew this man was a champion and nothing could stop his will.

HOW DIFFICULT IS IT TODAY FOR A LIBERAL FILMMAKER TO FIND BACKING?

It's impossible. There's a decision, a consensus, that a certain kind of movie "will not work." I'll always feel that you can take the most boring subject and make it gripping. JFK was gripping, love it or hate it. People weren't thinking about J.F.K. at that point; he was off the books. At worst, the movie opened up the debate.

WOULD YOU EVER DO A BIOPIC ABOUT THE BUSH FAMILY?

If I tried to do something like that, I would get so pounded before I even got a foot of film shot. I don't know if there's room enough on my back for the scars.