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I’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.

Oliver Stone

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
I’ve met people who will go to a movie that I can’t stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There’s something they like and identified in that movie, and I don’t see it.
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Mets People Saws Something
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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Different Original Stories Style
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.
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Character Integrate People Strong
[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
I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.
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Differences Marijuana Weed
Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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Country Difficult Horse People Shoot
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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Film Television Way
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
I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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Country Film Half People Want
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Country Giving Order People Study
When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, “That’s not an Oliver Stone film.” But I don’t know what to do about that except just move on.
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Film Moving Stones
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
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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Great Greed Movie Year
For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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Reason Shows Television
Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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Country Ideological People Security

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