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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.

Oliver Stone

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
Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. … I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.
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Done Scary Way
As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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Framastic People Politics
I’ve met people who will go to a movie that I can’t stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There’s something they like and identified in that movie, and I don’t see it.
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Mets People Saws Something
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’d rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what’s happening at the moment.
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Moments Past Tyranny
We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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Challenges Enormous Fronts
Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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Country Difficult Horse People Shoot
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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Film Imagine Tough
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Bumped People Thinking
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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Character Integrate People Strong
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Believe Different Interpretation Movie
I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?
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Adventure Home Men
Each actor requires a different language.
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Actors Different Language
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Country Gun People Use
I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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Generation People Thinking

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