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In any film there's always a historical implication.

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'm a history person I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.
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I'm more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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You always try to find the right style for the movie. That's the key.
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Bernie Sanders is a disappointment on foreign policy, totally doesn't think about it. But he has the possibility to be more isolationist, which would be good for us actually. We manage to kill several million people on this planet without taking any credit for it or blame. It's a heavy karma we have.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier and more fun to hear what someone has to say.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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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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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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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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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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[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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[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.
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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 never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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