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In any film there's always a historical implication.

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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
Actor
Film Director
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New York City
New York
William Oliver Stone
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I believe in intermissions. I lived through this experience with JFK and Nixon. JFK should have had an intermission. It should have come right after the Donald Sutherland scene, because then there's just too much information flooding in. You need a break. Same on Nixon. It was a long film, but I couldn't help it, with that kind of subject.
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Everyone in the world is impacted by the United States' Big Brother attitude toward the world. We need countries to say no to the United States. The United States is the dominant power in the universe, with its eavesdropping abilities, cyber abilities. And the world is in danger with our tyranny.
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I'd like to be honest to my time, and I lived from 1946, and I want to understand why our country, which I love so much, and was a great country when I was young, it seemed, became this monster vampire on the face of humanity- a vampire squid, to quote Matt Taibbi, sucking out the juices of all mankind. Why? It's a basic question.
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I don't think most people in the US realize how important WikiLeaks is and why Julian's case needs support.
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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'm a history person I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.
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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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There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today.
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You always try to find the right style for the movie. That's the key.
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Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.
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Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise.
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People should really horde their Blu-rays like old comic books and baseball cards. Because they're really beautiful, and will be worth something if you like movies as I do.
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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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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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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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I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans.
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People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
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