When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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 look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?
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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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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 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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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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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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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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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 knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that… it’d be that Don Quixote feeling, that I’d have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you’ve got to do it. That’s the only way you can do things.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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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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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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