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 STONEObama 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.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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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 don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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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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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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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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Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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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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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, “That’s not an Oliver Stone film.” But I don’t know what to do about that except just move on.
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I feel like I am what I am.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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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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