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OLIVER STONEWhat I’ve experienced, I’m trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
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I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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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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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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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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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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[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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I’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
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writing = ass + chair
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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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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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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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.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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I’d rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what’s happening at the moment.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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