Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
OLIVER STONEWhen you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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Each actor requires a different language.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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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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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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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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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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I’ve met people who will go to a movie that I can’t stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There’s something they like and identified in that movie, and I don’t see it.
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Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
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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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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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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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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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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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