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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

Oliver Stone

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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
New York City
New York
William Oliver Stone
Dramatist
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.
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Franklin Roosevelt saw the world as a possible alliance, with the UN involved, of course, where we would never have these kinds of wars again. And he was equally opposed to the British Empire as he was against the Communist Russians.
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I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.
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I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me people over 45.
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I'd rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what's happening at the moment.
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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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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 do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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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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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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As a dramatist, I don't have politics.
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Just because we live in a Christian era doesn't mean we're all Christian, necessarily.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
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From '45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we're running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that's great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we'll see.
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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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