I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
OLIVER STONEThe past assumes the nature of the present.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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writing = ass + chair
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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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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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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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?
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I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.
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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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Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. … I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
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