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?
OLIVER STONEI would vote for the man who’s lived life, who’s done different occupations, who’s been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I’d vote for experience, honest experience.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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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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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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I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them – maybe that’s what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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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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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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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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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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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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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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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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writing = ass + chair
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