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Oliver Stone

I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that… it’d be that Don Quixote feeling, that I’d have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you’ve got to do it. That’s the only way you can do things.
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Ambitious Day Feelings One
There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.
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Country Men People Wall
Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I’ve tried to get the overall in. I think that’s more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.
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Moving Thinking Two
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Country Giving Order People Study
For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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Reason Shows Television
I think our life is a series of adventures.
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Adventure Life Thinking
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Country Gun People Use
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
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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Film Television Way
Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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Country Difficult Horse People Shoot
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
In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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Digital Maintain Quality
The only home I had was with Warner Bros. during the ’90s. I made four movies with them then. Natural Born Killers, JFK, Heaven and Earth. Any Given Sunday was the last. And that was the end of the Terry Semel/Bob Daly regime.
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Country Heaven Home People Sunday
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
Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.
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Different Original Stories Style

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