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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.

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
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[When making movies I] set out to be authentic to [myself] and to put it down the way [I] feel it and know it and interpret it. And then others sometimes key into it and get it.
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America is the strongest empire ever, with the largest military. We spend ten times what the Russians do. And they have equal nuclear ability as we do, because they're precise.
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
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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.
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It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
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What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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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'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of a détente with the Soviet Union, a new feeling for peace, a seeking out of a new ally with the Soviet Union - the end of the Cold War, as Kennedy called it in his American University speech.
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I love the act of writing. I like the quiet, internal aspect of it. If I lost track of that, I couldn't direct the same way. I couldn't be a director for-hire it's just not my nature.
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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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We could learn a lot from the ancients, and we should go back there.
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I'm a history person I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.
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Each actor requires a different language.
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I gave up on America. I read the Times just to find out what they're thinking. I read blogs. I get most of my best information from people who are there, people who write independently. And there's actually very few of them.
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I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.
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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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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 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.
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