I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
OLIVER STONEI 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 everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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Each actor requires a different language.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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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 study history in order to give an interpretation.
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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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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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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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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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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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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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I’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
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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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