I’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
OLIVER STONEI 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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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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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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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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The only home I had was with Warner Bros. during the ’90s. I made four movies with them then. Natural Born Killers, JFK, Heaven and Earth. Any Given Sunday was the last. And that was the end of the Terry Semel/Bob Daly regime.
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I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It’s a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it’s hard to know what’s going on unless you really follow it.
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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 think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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I’ve met people who will go to a movie that I can’t stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There’s something they like and identified in that movie, and I don’t see it.
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Football is mesmerizing, because it’s a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they’re black or white, much as soldiers do.
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From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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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.
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