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Oliver Stone

What I’ve experienced, I’m trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
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Narrative Suppose Trying
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
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 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
I feel like I am what I am.
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Individual Like
When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Directors Looks Process
We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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Challenges Enormous Fronts
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Believe Different Interpretation Movie
Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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Country Difficult Horse People Shoot
When I’m working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I’m not interested in credit, but I’m feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.
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Credit Effort Important
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Country Giving Order People Study
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Envy Jealousy Underestimate
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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Great Greed Movie Year
We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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Breaths Knows Mind
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
Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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Country Ideological People Security

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