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I study history in order to give an interpretation.

Oliver Stone

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.
OLIVER STONE

Agendas Bombs Country People
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
There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.
OLIVER STONE

Country Men People Wall
Hell is the impossibility of reason.
OLIVER STONE

Hell Impossibility Reason
The past assumes the nature of the present.
OLIVER STONE

Assuming Past Present
You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It’s hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that’s great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we’ll see.
OLIVER STONE

Best Jobs Mean Somebody Something
Each actor requires a different language.
OLIVER STONE

Actors Different Language
The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
OLIVER STONE

Country Nightmares Sweat Worst
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

Country Dramatic People Trying
writing = ass + chair
OLIVER STONE

Ass Chairs Writing
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
We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
OLIVER STONE

Breaths Knows Mind
Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
OLIVER STONE

Christianity Concept Greek
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.
OLIVER STONE

Character Integrate People Strong
Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
OLIVER STONE

Animal Army Exercise
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
OLIVER STONE

Country Giving Order People Study

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