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We could learn a lot from the ancients, and we should go back there.

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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
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William Oliver Stone
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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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A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: He was a man sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but he was a man. I love that line.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.
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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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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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I gave up on America. I read the Times just to find out what they're thinking. I read blogs. I get most of my best information from people who are there, people who write independently. And there's actually very few of them.
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In any film there's always a historical implication.
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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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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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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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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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I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me people over 45.
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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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After World War II the Republicans - the Wall Street crowd - were very worried about a depression coming back. They hated Franklin Roosevelt in that crowd, my father among them. And there was a great fear in '46 that we'd fall back into the pits. And they always wanted to break up the Roosevelt legislation.
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Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind. We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over. We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good things happen.
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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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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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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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I'm more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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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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