Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stoneis an American film director, screenwriter, and producer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 September 1946
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions.
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We know that there was significant rehearsal and planning, ... They even had markers, they drew marbles of the enemy, they drew carved statues and they made battle plans like they do at West Point today.
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I found them both to be courageous, deeply wounded people. They're both still suffering from the injuries. Will said this is a testament not to the evil, but to the good that we as human beings are capable of. That's important. That's healing.
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I am here to interview Fidel for Spanish television,
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We all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has a mind of its own.
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If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What is this self-love? Where does this come from? It got worse, because after the war we thought we'd won it. That's the first myth. Frankly, Russia won it. The Soviet Union sacrificed far greater form than anyone else to win that war. Secondly, we had the atomic bomb. We should not have dropped it on Japan. We did as an example to the Soviets, not to defeat Japan and to save American lives. These are myths that we explode with a lot of research early on.
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When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, "That's not an Oliver Stone film." But I don't know what to do about that except just move on.
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I love films. I love fiction films, too. I do. I love making them, but it has to be the right one. Hopefully, I'll never become a director for hire. It's horrible to make a film that you're not really interested in.
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JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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My protest against digital has been me saying, "What's going to happen to film?" The result is that Kodak is out of business. That's a national tragedy. We've got to keep making film.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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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 guess you could say Alexander the Great was a man who completely transported me and moved me and inspired me because of his idealism, and I'd go back to the Greeks, and I always liked Homer and all the philosophers and their way of thinking and their concept of honor. I think their concept of honor does apply to the modern age, and certain people that walk around are pre-Christian.
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My ego is nothing - look what Alexander the Great achieved. And I felt he was a figure outside time, a figure we don't even understand, because he's frankly pre-Christian, and his concepts of honor go back to Homer.