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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
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New York City
New York
William Oliver Stone
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.
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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Just because we live in a Christian era doesn't mean we're all Christian, necessarily.
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I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.
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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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[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.
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You always try to find the right style for the movie. That's the key.
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This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population is in jail without having hurt anybody, mostly for drugs.
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I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.
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I'm more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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