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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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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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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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I'm going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it's hardware and it's important. I don't want to live in a cloud, all my life.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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[When making movies I] set out to be authentic to [myself] and to put it down the way [I] feel it and know it and interpret it. And then others sometimes key into it and get it.
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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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As a dramatist, I don't have politics.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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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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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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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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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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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'm a history person I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.
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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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writing = ass + chair
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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 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'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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