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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic 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
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I think any filmmaker will tell you when they wandered from theater to theater to watch their prints, it was disheartening to see the poor levels of light and the disrespect for films that existed in certain theater chains. It was always inconsistent.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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When I go to the movies, and I have to sit through ten previews of films that look [alike] and tell the whole story, you know that we've reached an age of consensus. And consensus is the worst thing for us. We all agree to agree. That's where we lose it as a culture. We have to move away from that.
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I'm a history person I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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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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[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.
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People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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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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But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
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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 can't tell you how many times at the breakfast table my dad would curse out Franklin Roosevelt. I love my father. He was an intelligent man, but he really didn't like regulations of the Roosevelt style, or the taxes. He was an Dwight Eisenhower man. And that's what Eisenhower did, committed to breaking down the program.
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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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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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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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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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