"The movie's not a smear job. I wouldn't want to spend a year of my life making something that is demeaning to somebody, being malicious. That's the wrong approach to art. It's not a political film, but a Shakespearean one." —Oliver Stone, in November's issue of Maxim magazine, on his new film, W.
"Sure, it's a political film. It would be horseshit to say it's not." —James Cromwell, who portrays George H.W. Bush, in Maxim
"Oliver Stone is known for being about as accurate a historian as Gilligan was a navigator." —White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, quoted in Maxim
"It's screamingly hilarious that the woman who didn't know anything about the Cuban Missile Crisis has the nerve to question, well … anyone's historical accuracy." —Poster "holyfrak" of Perino, in response to the Huffington Post's Oct. 9 preview of the story
"can't wait to have a couple cocktails and go see this comedy!" —"gypsysoul111," on huffingpost.com
This article appears in Oct 15-21, 2008.