[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.
OLIVER STONEI like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It’s my responsibility to find the research. It’s my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
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Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
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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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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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I’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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Football is mesmerizing, because it’s a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they’re black or white, much as soldiers do.
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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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I feel like I am what I am.
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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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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