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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 Stone

I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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Experience Trying Understand
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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Country Oil President
In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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Digital Maintain Quality
I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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Comfortable Simplicity
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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Country Heaven Home People Sunday
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Country Gun People Use
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
OLIVER STONE

Great Greed Movie Year
Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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Hell Impossibility Reason
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.
OLIVER STONE

Age Country Feelings People
I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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Power Torture
As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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Framastic People Politics
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.
OLIVER STONE

Football Team War
I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
OLIVER STONE

Glasses Mind Thinking
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
People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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Clean Dirty People
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

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.

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