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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

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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Adventure Home Men
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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Believe Country Leader Lightning People
When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Directors Looks Process
People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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Clean Dirty People
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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Moments Past Tyranny
Anybody who’s been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they’ve thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn’t that major.
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Divorce Insightful Thinking
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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Great Greed Movie Year
Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them – maybe that’s what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Connect Giants World
I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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Generation People Thinking
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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Agendas Bombs Country People
JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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Calling United States War
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
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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Misunderstood People Thinking
I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I’m a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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Country Dramatic People Trying
[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We weren’t right to do that – I don’t think he did have that consciousness. But we did it for movie reasons – to create empathy.
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Craft Empathy Thinking
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

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