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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.

Oliver Stone

Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
OLIVER STONE

Film Television Way
[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We weren’t right to do that – I don’t think he did have that consciousness. But we did it for movie reasons – to create empathy.
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Craft Empathy Thinking
Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
OLIVER STONE

Christianity Concept Greek
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
OLIVER STONE

Great Greed Movie Year
I think our life is a series of adventures.
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Adventure Life Thinking
I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
OLIVER STONE

Comfortable Simplicity
There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.
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Country Men People Wall
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Believe Different Interpretation Movie
I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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Experience Trying Understand
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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Animal Army Exercise
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
We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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Destruction Force Praying
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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Country Nightmares Sweat Worst
I will come out with my interpretation. If I’m wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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Country Fine Give Giving People Take
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 past assumes the nature of the present.
OLIVER STONE

Assuming Past Present

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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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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