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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.

Oliver Stone

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.
OLIVER STONE

Misunderstood People Thinking
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
The past assumes the nature of the present.
OLIVER STONE

Assuming Past Present
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.
OLIVER STONE

Divorce Insightful Thinking
Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It’s a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it’s hard to know what’s going on unless you really follow it.
OLIVER STONE

Concern Lying Real
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
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
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
OLIVER STONE

Country Gun People Use
It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
OLIVER STONE

Economic Interesting People Times Tough
writing = ass + chair
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Ass Chairs Writing
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
It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn’t like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.
OLIVER STONE

Film Imagine Tough
We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
OLIVER STONE

Breaths Knows Mind
As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
OLIVER STONE

Framastic People Politics
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.
OLIVER STONE

Film Moving Stones
I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
OLIVER STONE

Missing Next Popcorn

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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