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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
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New York City
New York
William Oliver Stone
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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'm a history person I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.
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You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain.
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This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.
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Very few people know that there is a whole school of historians that have existed in the United States from the 1940s and the early '50s that were revisionists. They were attacking the whole basis of the history of the Cold War. People like D.F. Fleming, William Appleman Williams.
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Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.
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You've also heard stories about how the military-industrial complex really does prefer Hilary Clinton because they know that she's not nuts like some of the Republicans. She will do what they bid. And what they want is basically to stay healthy.
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I may have disparaged the idea that people are looking at films on smaller and smaller screens... it's a shame that people have to watch DVDs with the lights on in a television-type situation where people are wandering in and out of the room. Movies are different from television, and you cannot watch movies like television. It distorts it.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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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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Football is mesmerizing, because it's a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they're black or white, much as soldiers do.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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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 wish that George W. Bush had gone to Vietnam, because he would have seen history in a different light. He would've experienced it in a different light because I don't think he understood the nature of war.
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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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I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.
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I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
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The second [presidential] term changes, and I think that John F. Kennedy certainly ran on that and he knew that second term would give him oxygen, and he needed it. Unfortunately, he didn't get there.
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I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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