Oliver Stone
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314 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Apr 2025
Oliver Stone’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yes. It's a habit. It's like a dog peeing on a hydrant. It just goes on and on and on. I don't understand. If there's names and stuff, they redact it. They redact it. So I'm not looking to government, but I am looking to honesty. That's what I'm looking for. And these bureaucrats in the government, how do they feel? What do they feel about their lives?
Are they working for us or are they working for secrecy? The people have not been dealt with honestly. And we know that. I think Americans know that. I think Americans are very cynical about the government.
He was commuted.
He pleaded a one charge. Yes. But he can't come here.
Winner in the Oscar goes to Oliver Stone. Oliver Stone for Midnight Express. Oliver Stone, born on the 4th of July.
I went into arms as a soldier eventually in 67, 8. And I saw things that just shocked me. Open my eyes, I'd never be the same again. Combat is a searing experience. And devastating to what your sense of life is worth. Your sense of self. You have no illusions about yourself. Or what life comes down to. It comes down to a very basic thing. Survival.
Both occur. You've gone through a process and you leave it. You become a bit of what you've done. And it's sort of a benchmark that tells you, I was here and now I can move on.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Where's my camera? I don't see myself. You have six cameras on you.
It's a good question.
What is the most impressive thing? Giving birth.
He got kicked out of the hospital?
He was happy. No, that's not true. You know, it takes a long time. You have to sit there and sit there. 12 hours sometimes. And it was a Saturday or something, and I wanted to see that game. So my wife was, my wife, I said, I'm going to go out and come back. And I came back with a pizza. I'll never forget. It was nauseating, the smell. She couldn't take it. So she asked me, get the fuck out.
She was screaming. But then I came back. I saw him being born, by the way. I saw him coming out.
312.
Yeah, you got to fight for these things. What do you mean you got to fight for these things? The three hour movie in those days was not normal at all. It was a special event. When I grew up, it was a... what they called, you know, an intermission film. It was a spectacle. But by the time it's 1980s, 90s, it was turned into, you had to make it as a single feature.
And that, because they don't want to, they were playing, the theater owners were putting pressure on the studios, you know, We want quicker turnovers. We want six turnovers a day. We want to sell popcorn in between. There's all kinds of economic reasons for it. A three-hour and 12 movies are killer. You only have four shows, three-day shows a day. Okay?
You should know that.
Hour 45, perfect.
JFK was a hit. Nixon was not because I think it was a darker poster and he was a darker man. John Kennedy was more popular. Also, people were interested in his assassination. Whereas the Nixon presidency was shrouded with
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