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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

It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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Economic Interesting People Times Tough
Each actor requires a different language.
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Actors Different Language
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.
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Best Jobs Mean Somebody Something
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
Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
OLIVER STONE

American Interviews Mona Lisa Politics
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
OLIVER STONE

Film Television Way
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
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
I’d rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what’s happening at the moment.
OLIVER STONE

Moments Past Tyranny
The only home I had was with Warner Bros. during the ’90s. I made four movies with them then. Natural Born Killers, JFK, Heaven and Earth. Any Given Sunday was the last. And that was the end of the Terry Semel/Bob Daly regime.
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Country Heaven Home People Sunday
[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 think our life is a series of adventures.
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Adventure Life Thinking
The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Assuming Past Present
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
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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Great Greed Movie Year
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

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