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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.

Oliver Stone

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.
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Beautiful Beauty Fusion
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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Country Evolution Greed Humans People
I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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Power Torture
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Believe Different Interpretation Movie
Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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Country Difficult Horse People Shoot
Each actor requires a different language.
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Actors Different Language
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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Country Dramatic People Trying
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
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.
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Divorce Insightful Thinking
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 think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Bumped People Thinking
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
Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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American Interviews Mona Lisa Politics
We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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Breaths Knows Mind
You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it’s read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.
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Best Effort Judging Taken
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

As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.

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