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Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.

Oliver Stone

Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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Country Ideological People Security
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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Best Jobs Mean Somebody Something
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 feel like I am what I am.
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Individual Like
The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Assuming Past Present
I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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Country Film Half People Want
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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Film Imagine Tough
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Envy Jealousy Underestimate
I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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Experience Trying Understand
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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Changed Country People Style
Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.
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Different Original Stories Style
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
For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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Reason Shows Television
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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Misunderstood People Thinking
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
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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Differences Marijuana Weed

Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.

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