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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.
Oliver Stone
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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
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William Oliver Stone
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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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I love the act of writing. I like the quiet, internal aspect of it. If I lost track of that, I couldn't direct the same way. I couldn't be a director for-hire it's just not my nature.
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Every time you go into a movie, you go into the point of view of who it is about.
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By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population is in jail without having hurt anybody, mostly for drugs.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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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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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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I'm more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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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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You've also heard stories about how the military-industrial complex really does prefer Hilary Clinton because they know that she's not nuts like some of the Republicans. She will do what they bid. And what they want is basically to stay healthy.
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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 couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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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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I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.
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In any film there's always a historical implication.
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You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain.
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