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As a dramatist, I don't have politics.

Oliver Stone

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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
Actor
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New York City
New York
William Oliver Stone
Dramatist
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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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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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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.
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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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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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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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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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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
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What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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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 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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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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In any film there's always a historical implication.
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My ego is nothing - look what Alexander the Great achieved. And I felt he was a figure outside time, a figure we don't even understand, because he's frankly pre-Christian, and his concepts of honor go back to Homer.
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We could learn a lot from the ancients, and we should go back there.
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I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.
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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 terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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