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.
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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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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I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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I feel like I am what I am.
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.
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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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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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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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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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There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.
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Each actor requires a different language.
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What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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