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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 make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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Missing Next Popcorn
Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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Country Ideological People Security
We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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Challenges Enormous Fronts
writing = ass + chair
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Ass Chairs Writing
I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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Experience Trying Understand
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
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
Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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Hell Impossibility Reason
[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We weren’t right to do that – I don’t think he did have that consciousness. But we did it for movie reasons – to create empathy.
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Craft Empathy Thinking
I think our life is a series of adventures.
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Adventure Life Thinking
I will come out with my interpretation. If I’m wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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Country Fine Give Giving People Take
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Believe Different Interpretation Movie
The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
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Campaigns Country Going People
I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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Comfortable Simplicity
I’d rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what’s happening at the moment.
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Moments Past Tyranny
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

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