Oliver Stone - "Wall Street's A Very Personal Film For Me"

For a book that never quite came together, a chat with the director about Gordon Gekko, 'Greed... is good' and the autobiographical aspects of his fifth feature.

On the film’s autobiographical aspects... - Wall Street's a very personal film for me. My father was a stockbroker. He's in the film, or at least, there's a little of him in Gordon Gekko and a lot of him in Lou Mannheim, Hal Holbrook’s role. And being both a son and a father, the relationships between Bud Fox [Charlie Sheen] and his father [Martin Sheen] and his surrogate father Gekko resonates. But there were problems. I liked Daryl Hannah and I wanted her in the picture - she plays Darien Taylor. But Sean Young, who was playing Gekko's wife Kate, came up to me on her first day on set and said, right in front of Daryl, "I AM Darien!" It was an incredibly unprofessional thing to do but, you know what, she was right! She was right!