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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
Oliver Stone
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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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I believe in intermissions. I lived through this experience with JFK and Nixon. JFK should have had an intermission. It should have come right after the Donald Sutherland scene, because then there's just too much information flooding in. You need a break. Same on Nixon. It was a long film, but I couldn't help it, with that kind of subject.
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Every time you go into a movie, you go into the point of view of who it is about.
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By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population is in jail without having hurt anybody, mostly for drugs.
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I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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I'm a history person I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.
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One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
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[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.
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Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.
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There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator - greed motivating evolution. But there's a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.
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Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.
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I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise.
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