14 DAY TRIAL // Speaking on “The Big Interview” with Dan Rather, legendary Hollywood director Oliver Stone shunned the idea of doing a Barack Obama biopic, dismissing it as more of a Steven Spielberg project, that would be more up his alley.
“I don't think [Obama's] interesting enough, I think that's more of a Spielberg movie because, you know, the first black President of the United States, it's a good story and I'm sure you can sell it on a symbolic level,” Stone bluntly said.
According to him, Spielberg happens to be guilty of a “view of exceptionalism” and that he has a different view on history than his own, made evident by his rendition of the movie “Lincoln.”
“I fault Spielberg for his view of exceptionalism. He grew up in that America, he has to sell that idea,” explains Stone, as he reveals he often struggles with the duality of his work “Part of me wants to fit in and would love to get Oscars... But there’s another part of me that says, ‘I’m [expletive], I’m on the other side of history.”
The director has also never made a secret of the fact that he's not a fan of the current administration, speaking strongly about Obama on various occasions – and not in the lightest of terms.