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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?

Oliver Stone

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.
OLIVER STONE

Character Integrate People Strong
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
In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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Digital Maintain Quality
Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
OLIVER STONE

American Interviews Mona Lisa Politics
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
I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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Dramatist History Looks Way
Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It’s a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it’s hard to know what’s going on unless you really follow it.
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Concern Lying Real
I would vote for the man who’s lived life, who’s done different occupations, who’s been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I’d vote for experience, honest experience.
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Experience Men Real
When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Directors Looks Process
writing = ass + chair
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Ass Chairs Writing
For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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Reason Shows Television
What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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Believe Country People Understanding United States
It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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Economic Interesting People Times Tough
I will come out with my interpretation. If I’m wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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Country Fine Give Giving People Take
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Envy Jealousy Underestimate
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

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