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Oliver Stone

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’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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Power Torture
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 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
Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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Christianity Concept Greek
I feel like I am what I am.
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Individual Like
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
I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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Experience Trying Understand
In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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Digital Maintain Quality
The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Assuming Past Present
Each actor requires a different language.
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Actors Different Language
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
Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It’s a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose, the sum effect of our work?
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DNA Profound Purpose
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Envy Jealousy Underestimate
I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.
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Differences Marijuana Weed
You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it’s read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.
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Best Effort Judging Taken
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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Film Television Way
I think our life is a series of adventures.
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Adventure Life Thinking
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Believe Different Interpretation Movie
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
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
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
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
JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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Calling United States War
The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Country Greek People Playwright
I’ve met people who will go to a movie that I can’t stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There’s something they like and identified in that movie, and I don’t see it.
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Mets People Saws Something
I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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Country Film Half People Want

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