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OLIVER STONEIt 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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Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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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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This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.
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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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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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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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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 think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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