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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
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New York City
New York
William Oliver Stone
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.
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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 think most people in the US realize how important WikiLeaks is and why Julian's case needs support.
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Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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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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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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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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In any film there's always a historical implication.
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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
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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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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 might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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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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