I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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 might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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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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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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I’m going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it’s hardware and it’s important. I don’t want to live in a cloud, all my life.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.
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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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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It’s a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose, the sum effect of our work?
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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