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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.

Oliver Stone

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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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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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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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One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.
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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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I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.
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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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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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When I go to the movies, and I have to sit through ten previews of films that look [alike] and tell the whole story, you know that we've reached an age of consensus. And consensus is the worst thing for us. We all agree to agree. That's where we lose it as a culture. We have to move away from that.
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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'm going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it's hardware and it's important. I don't want to live in a cloud, all my life.
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