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You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it’s read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.

Oliver Stone

I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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Believe Country Leader Lightning People
We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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Breaths Knows Mind
This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.
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Agendas Bombs Country People
Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I’ve tried to get the overall in. I think that’s more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.
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Moving Thinking Two
Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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Hell Impossibility Reason
I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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Glasses Mind Thinking
There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator – greed motivating evolution. But there’s a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.
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Country Evolution Greed Humans People
Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.
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Different Original Stories Style
I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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might Positive Taken
The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Country Greek People Playwright
When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Directors Looks Process
[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We weren’t right to do that – I don’t think he did have that consciousness. But we did it for movie reasons – to create empathy.
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Craft Empathy Thinking
I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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Country Film Half People Want
When I’m working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I’m not interested in credit, but I’m feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.
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Credit Effort Important
What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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Country Done People Poverty
I think our life is a series of adventures.
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Adventure Life Thinking

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You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it’s read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.

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