We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
OLIVER STONEIt’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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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 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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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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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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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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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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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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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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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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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 I’m working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I’m not interested in credit, but I’m feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.
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