As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
OLIVER STONEWell 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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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.
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From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, “That’s not an Oliver Stone film.” But I don’t know what to do about that except just move on.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator – greed motivating evolution. But there’s a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.
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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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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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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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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.
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