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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?

Oliver Stone

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 think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Bumped People Thinking
It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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Economic Interesting People Times Tough
Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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Country Ideological People Security
People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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Clean Dirty People
I think our life is a series of adventures.
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Adventure Life Thinking
When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Directors Looks Process
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Country Giving Order People Study
I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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might Positive Taken
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
Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.
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Country Oil President
I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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Dramatist History Looks Way
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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Film Television Way
The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Assuming Past Present
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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Great Greed Movie Year
When I’m working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I’m not interested in credit, but I’m feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.
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Credit Effort Important

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