Stone: 'It's fashionable to hate my movies'

Oliver Stone expected negative criticism of his movie World Trade Center, because it's "fashionable" to hate his films.

The 59-year-old movie-maker took considerable flak for his unsettling 1991 film JFK, which has toughened him against criticism.

And although JFK encouraged the US Senate to start declassifying documents regarding the 1963 assassination of former US President John F Kennedy, Stone is still aware his work is treated with caution.

He says: "It's fashionable to hate my movies. No movie in the history of pictures took more flak than JFK.

"I was trying to do my best to give an alternative version of what I thought might have happened, but it wasn't understood."