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

Oliver Stone

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
OLIVER STONE

Bumped People Thinking
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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Country Fine Give Giving People Take
What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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Country Done People Poverty
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.
OLIVER STONE

Narrative Suppose Trying
I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
OLIVER STONE

Dramatist History Looks Way
I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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Power Torture
From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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Helping Moments Running
Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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Hell Impossibility Reason
writing = ass + chair
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Ass Chairs Writing
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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Country Heaven Home People Sunday
I’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
OLIVER STONE

Changed Country People Style
Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.
OLIVER STONE

Different Original Stories Style
Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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Country Difficult Horse People Shoot
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.
OLIVER STONE

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
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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Country Oil President

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