I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
OLIVER STONEThere is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator – greed motivating evolution. But there’s a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.
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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.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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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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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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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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There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator – greed motivating evolution. But there’s a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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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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I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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I feel like I am what I am.
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Football is mesmerizing, because it’s a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they’re black or white, much as soldiers do.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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