Oliver Stone: I wouldn’t want to be a black man in the US with cops out there

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Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone has said he would not want to be a black man living in the US, describing the police as “out of control”.

The US director of films including Wall Street, Platoon and JFK said the country’s police force brought “the weapons of war to the street”.

Stone, who is publishing his memoir Chasing The Light, spoke on Good Morning Britain via video link. He said 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