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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

Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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Country Ideological People Security
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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Country Fine Give Giving People Take
There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator – greed motivating evolution. But there’s a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.
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Country Evolution Greed Humans People
I’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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Changed Country People Style
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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Film Television Way
As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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Framastic People Politics
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Bumped People Thinking
Football is mesmerizing, because it’s a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they’re black or white, much as soldiers do.
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Football Team War
I feel like I am what I am.
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Individual Like
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
The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Country Greek People Playwright
I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It’s my responsibility to find the research. It’s my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
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Interpretation Research Responsibility
The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Assuming Past Present
I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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Comfortable Simplicity
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
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Country Gun People Use

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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