Stone on 'W.': Director insists, 'I don't take sides' Cindy Pearlman: Oliver Stone doesn't take a breath. "You don't know a lot about Bush," he says. "You think you know. A lot will shock you." The controversial director is feeling the heat from what certainly will be the most talked-about film of 2008, but Stone is someone who never lets them see him sweat. Days away from his "W." opening at the multiplex, Stone is mulling over if and when the real commander-in-chief will see the biography Stone directed about his life.