Director Oliver Stone has apologised for comments he made to a London newspaper about the Holocaust and Jewish control of the media, which drew an avalanche of criticism.

"In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret," Stone said in a statement issued by his publicist.

"Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry."...