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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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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
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New York City
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William Oliver Stone
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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.
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Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It's a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it's hard to know what's going on unless you really follow it.
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Every time you go into a movie, you go into the point of view of who it is about.
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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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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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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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I love the act of writing. I like the quiet, internal aspect of it. If I lost track of that, I couldn't direct the same way. I couldn't be a director for-hire it's just not my nature.
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I'm not an activist. I'm a filmmaker. I'm a dramatist. My strength is to tell a story, to find a way to tell a story that makes it exciting. Our Untold History was a huge challenge. Snowden was no piece of cake, because writing code and breaking code is some of the most boring stuff you've ever seen.
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Each actor requires a different language.
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I'm a history person I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.
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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 think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me people over 45.
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JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
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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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People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.
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I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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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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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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I'm more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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