I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
OLIVER STONEThere 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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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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I would vote for the man who’s lived life, who’s done different occupations, who’s been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I’d vote for experience, honest experience.
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I feel like I am what I am.
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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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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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Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
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What I’ve experienced, I’m trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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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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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 am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I’m a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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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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I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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