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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.

Oliver Stone

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
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
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 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
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 think our life is a series of adventures.
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Adventure Life Thinking
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’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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Experience Trying Understand
From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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Helping Moments Running
Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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Country Ideological People Security
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
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’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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Power Torture
We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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Breaths Knows Mind
I think a lot of people misunderstand what I’m doing, because my films are not easy sometimes. They do deserve a second viewing. I think they get misunderstood easily.
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Misunderstood People Thinking
People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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Clean Dirty People

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