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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.

Oliver Stone

I would vote for the man who’s lived life, who’s done different occupations, who’s been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I’d vote for experience, honest experience.
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Experience Men Real
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
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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Misunderstood People Thinking
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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Cloud Important Thinking
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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Believe Country People Understanding United States
The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Assuming Past Present
A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.
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Beautiful Beauty Fusion
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 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
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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Ambitious Day Feelings One
I’d like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you’d sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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Age Country Feelings People
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
We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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Breaths Knows Mind
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
When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, “That’s not an Oliver Stone film.” But I don’t know what to do about that except just move on.
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Film Moving Stones
writing = ass + chair
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Ass Chairs Writing

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