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

Oliver Stone

Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It’s a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose, the sum effect of our work?
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DNA Profound Purpose
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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Changed Country People Style
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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Ambitious Day Feelings One
I think our life is a series of adventures.
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Adventure Life Thinking
We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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Challenges Enormous Fronts
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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Best Effort Judging Taken
When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Directors Looks Process
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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Film Television Way
People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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Clean Dirty People
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.
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Best Jobs Mean Somebody Something
I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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Comfortable Simplicity
I’m going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it’s hardware and it’s important. I don’t want to live in a cloud, all my life.
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Cloud Important Thinking
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Bumped People Thinking
As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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Framastic People Politics
The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Assuming Past Present

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

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