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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.

Oliver Stone

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
The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Country Greek People Playwright
For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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Reason Shows Television
Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I’ve tried to get the overall in. I think that’s more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.
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Moving Thinking Two
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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Missing Next Popcorn
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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Narrative Suppose Trying
What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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Country Done People Poverty
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Country Gun People Use
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
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
We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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Challenges Enormous Fronts
Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. … I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.
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Done Scary Way
I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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Experience Trying Understand
I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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Believe Country Leader Lightning People
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 do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Believe Different Interpretation Movie

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