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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.

Oliver Stone

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 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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Adventure Home Men
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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Believe Country People Understanding United States
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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Best Effort Judging Taken
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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Great Greed Movie Year
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
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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Country Heaven Home People Sunday
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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Agendas Bombs Country People
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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Football Team War
When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Directors Looks Process
When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, “That’s not an Oliver Stone film.” But I don’t know what to do about that except just move on.
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Film Moving Stones
I’ve met people who will go to a movie that I can’t stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There’s something they like and identified in that movie, and I don’t see it.
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Mets People Saws Something
What I’ve experienced, I’m trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
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Narrative Suppose Trying
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Country Giving Order People Study
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Country Gun People Use
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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Interpretation Research Responsibility

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