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I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

Oliver Stone

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
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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Country Evolution Greed Humans People
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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Missing Next Popcorn
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 study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Country Giving Order People Study
The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Country Greek People Playwright
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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Great Greed Movie Year
Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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Christianity Concept Greek
Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.
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Different Original Stories Style
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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Interpretation Research Responsibility
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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Film Television Way
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Bumped People Thinking
I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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Comfortable Simplicity
writing = ass + chair
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Ass Chairs Writing
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

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