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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.
Oliver Stone
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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
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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 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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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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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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writing = ass + chair
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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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We could learn a lot from the ancients, and we should go back there.
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There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today.
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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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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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I think any filmmaker will tell you when they wandered from theater to theater to watch their prints, it was disheartening to see the poor levels of light and the disrespect for films that existed in certain theater chains. It was always inconsistent.
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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 make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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