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I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise.

Oliver Stone

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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
New York City
New York
William Oliver Stone
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I've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
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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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I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: He was a man sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but he was a man. I love that line.
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Bernie Sanders is a disappointment on foreign policy, totally doesn't think about it. But he has the possibility to be more isolationist, which would be good for us actually. We manage to kill several million people on this planet without taking any credit for it or blame. It's a heavy karma we have.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
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I can't tell you how many times at the breakfast table my dad would curse out Franklin Roosevelt. I love my father. He was an intelligent man, but he really didn't like regulations of the Roosevelt style, or the taxes. He was an Dwight Eisenhower man. And that's what Eisenhower did, committed to breaking down the program.
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I may have disparaged the idea that people are looking at films on smaller and smaller screens... it's a shame that people have to watch DVDs with the lights on in a television-type situation where people are wandering in and out of the room. Movies are different from television, and you cannot watch movies like television. It distorts it.
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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 gave up on America. I read the Times just to find out what they're thinking. I read blogs. I get most of my best information from people who are there, people who write independently. And there's actually very few of them.
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You always try to find the right style for the movie. That's the key.
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People should really horde their Blu-rays like old comic books and baseball cards. Because they're really beautiful, and will be worth something if you like movies as I do.
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JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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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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