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I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

Oliver Stone

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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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Bernie Sanders is a disappointment on foreign policy, totally doesn't think about it. But he has the possibility to be more isolationist, which would be good for us actually. We manage to kill several million people on this planet without taking any credit for it or blame. It's a heavy karma we have.
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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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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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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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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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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In any film there's always a historical implication.
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Football is mesmerizing, because it's a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they're black or white, much as soldiers do.
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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 don't think most people in the US realize how important WikiLeaks is and why Julian's case needs support.
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I'm a history person I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.
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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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A lot of the good cameraman who we used are doing television work they're doing commercials for a lot of money. And the commercials look incredible. But what's it about? I made three major commercial campaigns. I enjoyed it, I experimented with it, and at the end of the day I felt no satisfaction. It was like having a fast food lunch.
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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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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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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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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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From '45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we're running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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My home in Hollywood is not a home. I do a film here, a film there, as they want it. I don't have a relationship. Like, Warner Bros. has a great relationship with Clint Eastwood and takes care of him.
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