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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
Film Producer
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New York City
New York
William Oliver Stone
Simplicity
Older
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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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Franklin Roosevelt saw the world as a possible alliance, with the UN involved, of course, where we would never have these kinds of wars again. And he was equally opposed to the British Empire as he was against the Communist Russians.
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We could learn a lot from the ancients, and we should go back there.
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I believe in intermissions. I lived through this experience with JFK and Nixon. JFK should have had an intermission. It should have come right after the Donald Sutherland scene, because then there's just too much information flooding in. You need a break. Same on Nixon. It was a long film, but I couldn't help it, with that kind of subject.
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I'm a history person I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.
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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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I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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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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I think any filmmaker will tell you when they wandered from theater to theater to watch their prints, it was disheartening to see the poor levels of light and the disrespect for films that existed in certain theater chains. It was always inconsistent.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.
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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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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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Independence is a state of mind. Independence is spirit without category.
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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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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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I don't agree with Bernie Sanders that the banks should be broken up at this point. But Hillary Clinton's acceptance of huge contributions from Goldman Sachs and others... And we don't debate what Clinton has done. She has a public record. She's been Secretary of State. She's basically a candidate of Wall Street, for Wall Street.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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Very few people know that there is a whole school of historians that have existed in the United States from the 1940s and the early '50s that were revisionists. They were attacking the whole basis of the history of the Cold War. People like D.F. Fleming, William Appleman Williams.
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