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.
OLIVER STONEAnybody 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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Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It’s a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose, the sum effect of our work?
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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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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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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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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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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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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I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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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’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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I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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