Oliver Stone
Platoon is a notable work of Oliver Stone, a film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor, and documentarian who has received both the Academy Award for Best Director and the BAFTA Award for Best Direction.
Stone was born on 15 September 1946 in New York City. He attended Trinity School and The Hill School before enrolling at Yale University, where he studied at Saybrook College. He subsequently trained at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. A citizen of both the United States and France, Stone has worked in the English and French languages across his career in film.
In addition to Platoon, Stone's notable works include Wall Street, The Doors, JFK, and Natural Born Killers. These titles span fiction and documentary forms, reflecting his work across multiple roles in the industry. Stone is described as an American filmmaker whose output encompasses directing, screenwriting, producing, and documentary work.
Quotes by Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone's insights on:
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 isn’t that major.
I don’t think most people in the US realize how important WikiLeaks is and why Julian’s case needs support.
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 in a cloud, all my life.
We are seeing entertainment become politics and we’re seeing people acting out in ways that are extremely violent and destabilizing. No rules apply. We’re in an era of no rules now, it seems.
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.
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.