Nixon screenplay writers

Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson and Oliver Stone · Nixon (1995)

Oliver Stone directed Nixon and shares its screenplay credit with Stephen J. Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson. Their Mao–Nixon scene is dramatic writing, so dialogue assigned to Mao in the film must not be quoted as if it were a historical meeting transcript.

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“The real war is within us. History is a symptom of our disease”

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