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.
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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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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From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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I’d rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what’s happening at the moment.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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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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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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JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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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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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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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’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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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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