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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
Film Producer
Screenwriter
New York City
New York
William Oliver Stone
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Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.
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America is the strongest empire ever, with the largest military. We spend ten times what the Russians do. And they have equal nuclear ability as we do, because they're precise.
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.
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Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.
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Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of a détente with the Soviet Union, a new feeling for peace, a seeking out of a new ally with the Soviet Union - the end of the Cold War, as Kennedy called it in his American University speech.
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Anyone can relate to suffering in this world.
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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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When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
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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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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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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'm trying to understand my life. The one that I've experienced.
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As a dramatist, I don't have politics.
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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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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.
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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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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'm a history person I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.
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