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When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.
The best movies are simple.
Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.
I’m not a strikingly handsome guy, but I’m in movies.
I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.
You can’t have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can’t have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros’ pocket money. It’s fundamentally ridiculous.
My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an ’86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you’d ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.
They’re very, uh, you know, I don’t come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they’re cool and bare minimum so it’s not always a money issue for me.
At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn’t spend the money I’ve accrued now.
My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer less fun and less money.