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What I’ve experienced, I’m trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.

Oliver Stone

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.
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Done Scary Way
I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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Generation People Thinking
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
I’ve met people who will go to a movie that I can’t stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There’s something they like and identified in that movie, and I don’t see it.
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Mets People Saws Something
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
We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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Challenges Enormous Fronts
I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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might Positive Taken
When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Directors Looks Process
The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Assuming Past Present
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
[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We weren’t right to do that – I don’t think he did have that consciousness. But we did it for movie reasons – to create empathy.
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Craft Empathy Thinking
I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.
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Differences Marijuana Weed
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
Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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Country Ideological People Security
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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Great Greed Movie Year
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

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