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Oliver Stone

I would vote for the man who’s lived life, who’s done different occupations, who’s been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I’d vote for experience, honest experience.
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Experience Men Real
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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Beautiful Beauty Fusion
I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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Glasses Mind Thinking
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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Divorce Insightful Thinking
Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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Country Difficult Horse People Shoot
I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It’s my responsibility to find the research. It’s my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
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Interpretation Research Responsibility
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
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
Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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Country Ideological People Security
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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Country Evolution Greed Humans People
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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Age Country Feelings People
Football is mesmerizing, because it’s a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they’re black or white, much as soldiers do.
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Football Team War
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Country Giving Order People Study
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Country Gun People Use
Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.
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Country Oil President
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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Film Imagine Tough

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