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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.

Oliver Stone

For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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Reason Shows Television
I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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Comfortable Simplicity
I will come out with my interpretation. If I’m wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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Country Fine Give Giving People Take
writing = ass + chair
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Ass Chairs Writing
I’d rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what’s happening at the moment.
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Moments Past Tyranny
I think our life is a series of adventures.
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Adventure Life Thinking
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’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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Experience Trying Understand
We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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Destruction Force Praying
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Country Giving Order People Study
You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It’s hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that’s great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we’ll see.
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Best Jobs Mean Somebody Something
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
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
I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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Dramatist History Looks Way
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Country Gun People Use
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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Film Television Way

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