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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.

Oliver Stone

You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it’s read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.
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Best Effort Judging Taken
Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It’s a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose, the sum effect of our work?
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DNA Profound Purpose
I think a lot of people misunderstand what I’m doing, because my films are not easy sometimes. They do deserve a second viewing. I think they get misunderstood easily.
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Misunderstood People Thinking
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
People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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Clean Dirty People
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’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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Power Torture
I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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Experience Trying Understand
I think our life is a series of adventures.
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Adventure Life Thinking
In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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Digital Maintain Quality
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Bumped People Thinking
From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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Helping Moments Running
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 Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Country Greek People Playwright
I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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Comfortable Simplicity
Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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American Interviews Mona Lisa Politics

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