Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
OLIVER STONEI’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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Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I’ve tried to get the overall in. I think that’s more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.
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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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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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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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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It’s hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that’s great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we’ll see.
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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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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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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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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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The only home I had was with Warner Bros. during the ’90s. I made four movies with them then. Natural Born Killers, JFK, Heaven and Earth. Any Given Sunday was the last. And that was the end of the Terry Semel/Bob Daly regime.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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