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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.

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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
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New York City
New York
William Oliver Stone
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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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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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I'm trying to understand my life. The one that I've experienced.
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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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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.
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What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
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There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today.
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You always try to find the right style for the movie. That's the key.
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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Just because we live in a Christian era doesn't mean we're all Christian, necessarily.
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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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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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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 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 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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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'm a history person I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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After World War II the Republicans - the Wall Street crowd - were very worried about a depression coming back. They hated Franklin Roosevelt in that crowd, my father among them. And there was a great fear in '46 that we'd fall back into the pits. And they always wanted to break up the Roosevelt legislation.
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