Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of a dรฉtente with the Soviet Union, a new feeling for peace, a seeking out of a new ally with the Soviet Union - the end of the Cold War, as Kennedy called it in his American University speech.
Oliver StoneWe all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has a mind of its own.
Oliver StoneComing Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.
Oliver StoneMy schooling was very conservative. I went to Trinity School, and then to the Hill School, which is a boarding school, then to Yale. My parents got divorced in that period, and I realized I didn't have a life anymore. I was the only child, so a three-person family breaks apart. I ended up very conformist, very scared, very lonely. I couldn't go on with Yale, just couldn't do it. I'd been doing too much of that for too long. I didn't know what I wanted, but I knew what I didn't want, which was to go to Wall Street and join the crowd there.
Oliver StoneWhat scares me most about the media is that so many of them don't realize that by presenting and highlighting certain issues, opinions, and perspectives over others, they can manipulate and control people's beliefs in subtle ways.
Oliver Stone