“This is about getting into a corporation, screwing it up, putting in poison pills so your competitor can’t swallow it…. Very intricate game played in the 1980’s…. Mike Milken did it with junks bonds, Drexel Burnham.”

— Oliver Stone

Wall Street DVD Director’s Commentary (2000)

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American film director, screenwriter, and producer 1946

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