Oliver Stone on new documentary, 'The Putin Interviews'

Oliver Stone is known for his award-winning movies like "Platoon" and "Midnight Express." The filmmaker has interviewed controversial figures like Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro. For his latest documentary, "The Putin Interviews," Stone was granted extensive access to the Russian president and no topic was off limits. Stone joined "CBS This Morning" to discuss what he learned about Putin over his extensive interviews.

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[memyself]

As an American, I hate American mass media.

[nikolasevaljevic]

He interviewed putin for 20 hours, and these 3 are constantly telling him what is putin like. Lord have mercy

[pauljames]

“If you say so, I’m not so sure” is literally the best response to anyone

[trevortimoko]

A masterful display of integrity and character from Oliver Stone in this interveiw

[MotoBazooka]

Mr. Stone seems to be the only clear minded person in that studio...

[walterbishop]

This proves why he had to make this Documentary!

[nfsking]

I really like how Mr. Stone never backs off despite attempts of the show to demean what he does.

[MrJoebarnes]

the worse interview ever, I'm disappointed in CBS

[tomalmow]

This woman in blue seems to be on HATE steroids.

[paulkelly]

It's so pathetic to see how very uninterested they are to hear the other side of the story but rather doubling down on the same narrative of Cold War mentality which is sickening to the core it's a shame main stream media is this crappy now days. Well done Olivia stone..

[Sasa-zvpq]

It seems to be a new American thing to aggressively question the interviewee and move from unrelated question to unrelated question if the interviewee resists being bullied. Well done Mr. Stone.

[lrmodranoel]

Oliver is so decent. "If you say so" translate to: You don't know sh*34t

[whetvgn]

My God! When I listening these show hosts with all their preconceptions to Mr Putin, it makes me feel so sad about US Mass media.
USSR propaganda was nothing comparing to this.

[tehacjusz]

Oliver Stone - one of the few US citizens they can be proud of.

[vova]

Norah O'Donnell is out of her depth questioning an intelligent and experienced film maker and deep thinker like Oliver Stone. She doesn't know how to listen while interviewing people, something Oliver mastered to perfection.
At least Charlie Rose knew better, was respectful and kept his mouth (mostly) shut.

[Rimrock]

Love the way Mr Stone answer the female reporter : 'If you say so'.

[rangyea]

I think O. Stone is very possible the most honest and level headed person in Hollywood. I also think our media paints a very negative and inaccurate picture of Putin. If you study him via multiple biographies as well as watch his speeches​ and interviews and you will see a very intelligent man who shows himself to be possessing of an integrety and love of his country which I think he cares deeply for.

[annawarner]

I just finished watching Stone's interview with Vladimir Putin. I believe that those 4 interviews are so important that they should be made available to everyone in the United States. Putin is wise, intelligent leader of the country with the difficult past, thousands years of the history and with him being presented by politicians and media as a greatest enemy of the United States, he is worth listening to.

[billycroacker]

I like Oliver Stone because he can form his own ideas in spite of American cliches. That being said, I also think that sometimes he "fall in love" with the leaders he interviews. Putin is certainly a charismatic and complex person, and these interviews showed that he has strong values and he's not the "monster" that western media try to create. I liked the guy more than what I expected, I have to admit that. At the same time, during those interviews he managed to not answer some of the most uncomfortable questions that Stone made (like the ones about the transparency on his wealth, for example) and he tended to minimize certain relevant problems linked to the policies of his government (like freedom of speech, gay rights, NSA-style interceptions, etc ). Obviously he was eager to "sell" a certain image of himself: brilliant, calm, open-minded, value-oriented, inclusive, wise (although I think that despite this image he tried to build up, we saw the man behind the Russian President quite a lot here). Thinking that in those 20 hours he was always 100% genuine and he never stretched/omitted facts would be naive.
But again, was he that different from western politicians in doing that? I don't think so.

[NONENONENONE]

this dude did great interviews than Megyn...