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

Oliver Stone

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.
OLIVER STONE

Best Jobs Mean Somebody Something
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.
OLIVER STONE

Connect Giants World
I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
OLIVER STONE

Comfortable Simplicity
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.
OLIVER STONE

Interpretation Research Responsibility
I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?
OLIVER STONE

Adventure Home Men
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
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
OLIVER STONE

Envy Jealousy Underestimate
We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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Destruction Force Praying
Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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Country Difficult Horse People Shoot
I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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Experience Trying Understand
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
I feel like I am what I am.
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Individual Like
The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Country Greek People Playwright
I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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Generation People Thinking
The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Assuming Past Present
From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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Helping Moments Running

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