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I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.

Oliver Stone

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.
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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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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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Country Ideological People Security
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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Calling United States War
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
The past assumes the nature of the present.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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Destruction Force Praying
The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Country Greek People Playwright
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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Moving Thinking Two
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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Campaigns Country Going People
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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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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Generation People Thinking
I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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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’d like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you’d sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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