You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it’s read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.
OLIVER STONEI 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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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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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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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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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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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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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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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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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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