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Oliver Stone

(1946) Film Director United States

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Oliver Stone is a film director from the United States, best known for JFK.

Quick Facts About Oliver Stone

Born: September 15, 1946
Nationality: United States
Profession: Film Director
Notable works: JFK
Known for: Platoon, Natural Born Killers, JFK, Wall Street, The Doors
Spouse: Sun-jung Jung

About Oliver Stone

William Oliver Stone is an American filmmaker. An acclaimed director who tackled subjects ranging from the Vietnam War and American politics to musical biopics and crime dramas, Stone has received numerous accolades including three Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, one Primetime Emmy, three Independent Spirit Awards and six Golden Globes.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Purple Heart Golden Bear Silver Bear Ordre des Arts et des Lettres BAFTA Award for Best Direction Donostia Award

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Bronze Star Medal Sitges Grand Honorary Award Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival Air Medal Golden Globe Awards Directors Guild of America Award Writers Guild of America Award Jupiter Awards Vietnam Service Medal Gallantry Cross National Defense Service Medal Commendation Medal Combat Infantryman Badge Vietnam Campaign Medal Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director Officer of Arts and Letters star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Commander of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite

Quotes by Oliver Stone · Page 3

What scares me most about the media is that so many of them don't realize that by presenting and highlighting certain issues,…

Belief

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“the Berlin Wall failed to elicit a jubilant response on his part. He explained,”

Berlin wall

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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…

Being honest

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In digital, you can maintain the quality.

Digital

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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…

Age

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I can see a movie and believe the story and characterization and stay proud of it. It doesn't change. Even if it's…

Appreciated

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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a…

Dramatic

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I'm going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it's hardware and it's important. I don't want to live…

Clouds

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I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise.

Areas

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Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers,

Government

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I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in…

Century

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You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it…

Enough

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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…

Being honest

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When I'm working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I'm not…

Credit

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Hell is the impossibility of reason.

Hell

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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…

About

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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

History

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I have skipped from style to style from film to film, and I love doing that because it's given me the ability…

Ability

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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…

Christian

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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

Believe

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As a dramatist, I don't have politics.

Politics

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“Most American view World War II nostalgically as the "good war," in which the United States and its allies triumphed over German…

War

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I don't agree with Bernie Sanders that the banks should be broken up at this point. But Hillary Clinton's acceptance of huge…

Acceptance

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Each actor requires a different language.

Actors

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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

Envy

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