There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator – greed motivating evolution. But there’s a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.
OLIVER STONEPat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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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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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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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 that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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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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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that… it’d be that Don Quixote feeling, that I’d have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you’ve got to do it. That’s the only way you can do things.
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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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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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JFK 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.
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I’m going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it’s hardware and it’s important. I don’t want to live in a cloud, all my life.
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I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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