Oliver Stone on Donald Trump: 'There is something vastly wrong with his ego'
Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone has described US President Donald Trump as a "mad King Lear".
The film-maker told ITV's Good Morning Britain that Mr Trump was "a character beyond belief" and that it would be impossible to write a film about him "because he changes his character all the time [...] Mr Trump eludes description.
"He needs love, he wants to be loved so badly and yet he doesn’t understand how to get it.
"There is something vastly wrong with his ego," Stone said.
He added of the president: "He doesn’t have the same consistency of any of the presidents."
"I made three movies, I made JFK, I made Nixon and young Bush, W.
"Nixon was the deepest of them all in terms of his thinking [...] I empathised with them, that's to say I walked in their shoes with them, but I didn’t sympathise, a big difference […] Mr Trump eludes description."
The director also said he would not want to be a black man living in the United States, describing the police in the country "out of control".
The film director told ITV's Good Morning Britain that officers in the US brought "the weapons of war to the street".
His comments come as federal agents continue to clash with protesters on a nightly basis in Portland, Oregon in action sparked by the death of George Floyd.
Stone, who is publishing his memoir Chasing The Light, told Good Morning Britain that he supported increased diversity in Hollywood, but criticised studios for trying to enforce quotas.
He said: "I do but I don’t believe in quotas at all.
"I don’t think that works at all.
"Sometimes material crosses colour lines, it crosses race, it crosses sex – a movie is a movie and everything has its purpose.
"You can’t just make things formulas and quotas.
"That’s what the studios sometimes try to do, so it is a mess."
He added: "I wouldn’t want to be a black man in America with the cops out there.
"I’ve run into cops enough in my life and it is pretty scary.
"They are damn right, they haven’t been respected."
He added: "The police in America are out of control like the military is abroad.
"We bring the weapons of war to the street and this is not a healthy thing."
The director also claimed it would be "impossible" to make his films Platoon and Salvador in today’s Hollywood.
He said: "Hollywood has changed. When I did Platoon and Salvador I was blowing the explosives myself.
"We had no net. We had to. We were a low budget operation in a foreign country and we had to get it done at a certain pace.
"We were taking risks, but now it would be impossible.
"There are so many insurance clauses, so many advisers.
"They build the net so big the safety factor becomes the major issue. Insurance becomes more important than substance.
"In a sense, it is just overdone. There are too many people now."