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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.

Oliver Stone

I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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Country Film Half People Want
Each actor requires a different language.
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Actors Different Language
We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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Breaths Knows Mind
Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It’s a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it’s hard to know what’s going on unless you really follow it.
OLIVER STONE

Concern Lying Real
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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Campaigns Country Going People
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.
OLIVER STONE

Best Jobs Mean Somebody Something
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
I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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Glasses Mind Thinking
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.
OLIVER STONE

Believe Country People Understanding United States
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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Done Scary Way
The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Country Greek People Playwright
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.
OLIVER STONE

Mets People Saws Something
What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
OLIVER STONE

Country Done People Poverty
A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.
OLIVER STONE

Beautiful Beauty Fusion
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
OLIVER STONE

Film Television Way
Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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American Interviews Mona Lisa Politics

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