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There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today.

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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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New York City
New York
William Oliver Stone
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One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
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You always try to find the right style for the movie. That's the key.
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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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I can't tell you how many times at the breakfast table my dad would curse out Franklin Roosevelt. I love my father. He was an intelligent man, but he really didn't like regulations of the Roosevelt style, or the taxes. He was an Dwight Eisenhower man. And that's what Eisenhower did, committed to breaking down the program.
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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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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.
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Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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People should really horde their Blu-rays like old comic books and baseball cards. Because they're really beautiful, and will be worth something if you like movies as I 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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Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier and more fun to hear what someone has to say.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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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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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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You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain.
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I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.
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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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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.
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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 might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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