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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This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.
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You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it’s read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.
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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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You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It’s hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that’s great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we’ll see.
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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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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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I feel like I am what I am.
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What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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I think a lot of people misunderstand what I’m doing, because my films are not easy sometimes. They do deserve a second viewing. I think they get misunderstood easily.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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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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