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I'm more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
Oliver Stone
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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
Actor
Film Director
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New York City
New York
William Oliver Stone
Older
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Simplicity
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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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One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.
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