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Oliver Stone

Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them – maybe that’s what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Connect Giants World
I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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might Positive Taken
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Believe Different Interpretation Movie
I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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Country Film Half People Want
Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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American Interviews Mona Lisa Politics
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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Character Integrate People Strong
We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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Breaths Knows Mind
The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Country Greek People Playwright
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Country Gun People Use
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
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
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
Each actor requires a different language.
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Actors Different Language
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 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
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

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