Born 1946 in New York City. Nominated for 11 Academy Awards with three wins (Best Adapted Screenplay in 1979 for Midnight Express (dir. Alan Parker), Best Director in 1987 for Platoon, and another Best Director in 1990 for Born on the Fourth of July). Most notable projects include: World Trade Center, Nixon, Natural Born Killers, JFK, Talk Radio and Salvador.
Quotable: “Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA or the consciousness in some way and they remain and they help shape the collective conscience…That’s not to say films shouldn’t be fun and entertaining and filled with all kinds of riddles and codes either. A message is not necessarily delivered Western Union-style. A message is inherent in the canvas that you paint.” (MovieMaker, March/April 1995)
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