I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
OLIVER STONEThe truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
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What I’ve experienced, I’m trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
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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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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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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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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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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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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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