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Oliver Stone

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.
OLIVER STONE

Cloud Important Thinking
[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.
OLIVER STONE

Craft Empathy Thinking
I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
OLIVER STONE

Power Torture
Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
OLIVER STONE

American Interviews Mona Lisa Politics
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
Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
OLIVER STONE

Character Integrate People Strong
Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
OLIVER STONE

Animal Army Exercise
Each actor requires a different language.
OLIVER STONE

Actors Different Language
We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
OLIVER STONE

Destruction Force Praying
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.
OLIVER STONE

Country Evolution Greed Humans People
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
Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I’ve tried to get the overall in. I think that’s more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.
OLIVER STONE

Moving Thinking Two
When I’m working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I’m not interested in credit, but I’m feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.
OLIVER STONE

Credit Effort Important
Hell is the impossibility of reason.
OLIVER STONE

Hell Impossibility Reason
The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
OLIVER STONE

Country Greek People Playwright
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.
OLIVER STONE

Done Scary Way

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