I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
OLIVER STONEJFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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I think a lot of people misunderstand what I’m doing, because my films are not easy sometimes. They do deserve a second viewing. I think they get misunderstood easily.
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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 went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.
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Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. … I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.
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I feel like I am what I am.
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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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writing = ass + chair
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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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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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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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