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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

Oliver Stone

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Bumped People Thinking
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
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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Country Nightmares Sweat Worst
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
We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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Destruction Force Praying
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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Done Scary Way
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Envy Jealousy Underestimate
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
I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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Glasses Mind Thinking
Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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American Interviews Mona Lisa Politics
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
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Believe Different Interpretation Movie
I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It’s my responsibility to find the research. It’s my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
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Interpretation Research Responsibility
When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Directors Looks Process
The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
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Campaigns Country Going People
I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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Power Torture

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