But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.

" Because of Stone's feature film commitments production took four years to complete. More recently Stone directed Savages based on a novel by Don Winslow. Stone was admitted into Yale University but left after a year to teach high school students at the Free Pacific Institute in South Vietnam.

Many of Stone's films focus on contemporary American political and cultural issues. British newspaper The Guardian described Stone as "one of the few committed men of the left working in mainstream American cinema.