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You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that's great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we'll see.

Oliver Stone

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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
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From '45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we're running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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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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