Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
OLIVER STONEI’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
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I 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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The only home I had was with Warner Bros. during the ’90s. I made four movies with them then. Natural Born Killers, JFK, Heaven and Earth. Any Given Sunday was the last. And that was the end of the Terry Semel/Bob Daly regime.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn’t like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.
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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 think a lot of people misunderstand what I’m doing, because my films are not easy sometimes. They do deserve a second viewing. I think they get misunderstood easily.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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The 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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From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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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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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 think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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