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I study history in order to give an interpretation.

Oliver Stone

I’d like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you’d sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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Age Country Feelings People
What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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Country Done People Poverty
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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Great Greed Movie Year
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
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
The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Country Greek People Playwright
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Bumped People Thinking
I will come out with my interpretation. If I’m wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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Country Fine Give Giving People Take
Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
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Animal Army Exercise
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.
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Misunderstood People 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
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 think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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Glasses Mind Thinking
The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
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Campaigns Country Going People
I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It’s my responsibility to find the research. It’s my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
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Interpretation Research Responsibility
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Envy Jealousy Underestimate

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

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