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I'm not an activist. I'm a filmmaker. I'm a dramatist. My strength is to tell a story, to find a way to tell a story that makes it exciting. Our Untold History was a huge challenge. Snowden was no piece of cake, because writing code and breaking code is some of the most boring stuff you've ever seen.

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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
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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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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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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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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.
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I'm a history person I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.
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Franklin Roosevelt saw the world as a possible alliance, with the UN involved, of course, where we would never have these kinds of wars again. And he was equally opposed to the British Empire as he was against the Communist Russians.
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I'm trying to understand my life. The one that I've experienced.
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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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I do have a side as a citizen, and I've always expressed it, and that's where I've gotten into misunderstandings, because some people see me as a leftist nut or whatever. A conspiracy nut. All that stuff. These are definitions that don't really apply to a dramatist, because a dramatist is working from empathy.
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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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There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator - greed motivating evolution. But there's a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.
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Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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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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It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
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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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