I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
From Oliver Stone
I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
In any film there's always a historical implication.
But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.
But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
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