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One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
Oliver Stone
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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
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William Oliver Stone
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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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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've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
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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'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 think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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