This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.
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More Oliver Stone Quotes
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From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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Anybody who’s been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they’ve thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn’t that major.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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writing = ass + chair
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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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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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Each actor requires a different language.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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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.
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It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn’t like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.
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I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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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?
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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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