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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.
Oliver Stone
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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
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William Oliver Stone
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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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Independence is a state of mind. Independence is spirit without category.
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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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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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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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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From '45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we're running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Just because we live in a Christian era doesn't mean we're all Christian, necessarily.
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Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.
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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'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 don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise.
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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 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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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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Anyone can relate to suffering in this world.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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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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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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