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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.

Oliver Stone

As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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Framastic People Politics
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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Connect Giants World
I feel like I am what I am.
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Individual Like
I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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Comfortable Simplicity
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Country Gun People Use
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Bumped People Thinking
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
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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Believe Country People Understanding United States
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Country Giving Order People Study
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
I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I’m a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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Country Dramatic People Trying
I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?
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Adventure Home Men
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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Character Integrate People Strong
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
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Envy Jealousy Underestimate
The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Country Greek People Playwright

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