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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.

Oliver Stone

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
When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Directors Looks Process
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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Cloud Important Thinking
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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Missing Next Popcorn
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
Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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Hell Impossibility Reason
I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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Dramatist History Looks Way
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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Great Greed Movie Year
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.
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Film Imagine Tough
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Country Giving Order People Study
From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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Helping Moments Running
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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Football Team War
People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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Clean Dirty People
I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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Comfortable Simplicity
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
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

As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.

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