Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. … I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.
OLIVER STONEFear 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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I’d like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you’d sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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Each actor requires a different language.
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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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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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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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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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Anybody who’s been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they’ve thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn’t that major.
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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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I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.
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I’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
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Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It’s a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose, the sum effect of our work?
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