I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
The beauty of history is that historians have the ability to find patterns, the big picture. When you make a movie, you… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
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… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
When you look at the global situation, if America learned to be one of the many countries in the world and to… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Very few people know that there is a whole school of historians that have existed in the United States from the 1940s… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I wish that George W. Bush had gone to Vietnam, because he would have seen history in a different light. He would've… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I've seen my kids' work at school, and I think they're better than when I was young, 'cause I was brainwashed into… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I want my children to have access to something that looks beyond what I call the tyranny of now. You read the… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other religions were… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I've liked different women at different times in my life. I've been attracted to white women. I've been attracted to black women. I've been… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
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… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Everyone in the world is impacted by the United States' Big Brother attitude toward the world. We need countries to say no to the… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I didn't like my classmates at Yale. George W.Bush was in my class. I didn't know it then. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
There is this thing about time that you can't see at the time you're at. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Obama is now fighting for his life. He's fighting for a federal government. I believe in a federal government. I hope it sticks around.… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
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