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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

You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It’s hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that’s great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we’ll see.
OLIVER STONE

Best Jobs Mean Somebody 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
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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Country Heaven Home People Sunday
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
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
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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Narrative Suppose Trying
The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
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Country Nightmares Sweat Worst
Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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Christianity Concept Greek
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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Differences Marijuana Weed
When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Directors Looks Process
I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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Glasses Mind Thinking
This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.
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Agendas Bombs Country People
The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Assuming Past Present
I think our life is a series of adventures.
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Adventure Life 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 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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