The past assumes the nature of the present.
OLIVER STONEHell is the impossibility of reason.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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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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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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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them – maybe that’s what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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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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I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that… it’d be that Don Quixote feeling, that I’d have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you’ve got to do it. That’s the only way you can do things.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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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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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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I’m going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it’s hardware and it’s important. I don’t want to live in a cloud, all my life.
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What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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