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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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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
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New York City
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William Oliver Stone
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I'm trying to understand my life. The one that I've experienced.
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Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
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I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.
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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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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.
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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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