I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
OLIVER STONEI went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I’m a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It’s a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it’s hard to know what’s going on unless you really follow it.
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I will come out with my interpretation. If I’m wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Each actor requires a different language.
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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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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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I feel like I am what I am.
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I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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