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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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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
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New York City
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William Oliver Stone
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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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America is the strongest empire ever, with the largest military. We spend ten times what the Russians do. And they have equal nuclear ability as we do, because they're precise.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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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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I'd like to be honest to my time, and I lived from 1946, and I want to understand why our country, which I love so much, and was a great country when I was young, it seemed, became this monster vampire on the face of humanity- a vampire squid, to quote Matt Taibbi, sucking out the juices of all mankind. Why? It's a basic question.
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It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
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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 a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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Independence is a state of mind. Independence is spirit without category.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.
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Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.
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I'm trying to understand my life. The one that I've experienced.
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