Oliver Stone - Blog Posts

His tragedy was one of increasing loneliness and impatience with those who could not understand. And if his desire to unite Greek and barbarian ended in failure... what failure! His failure towered over other men's successes. I've lived... I've lived a long life, Cadmos. But the glory and the memory of man will always belong to the ones who follow their great visions. And the greatest of these is the one they now... call "Megas Alexandros" - the greatest Alexander of them all.

Ptolemy I Soter, Oliver Stone’s Alexander (2004)

James Earl Jones as Thulsa Doom in:

Conan the Barbarian (1982) by John Milius

Costumes by John Bloomfield

Make-up by Colin Arthur, Carlo De Marchis & José Antonio Sánchez

Real life characters:

Ron Kovic with a group of dissident veterans encamped in the office of Sen. Alan Cranston (1974)

Tom Cruise in Born on the Fourth of July (1989) by Oliver Stone

Tom Cruise, Ron Kovic and Oliver Stone at The 47th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1990)