I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
OLIVER STONETelevision has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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I feel like I am what I am.
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Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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I’d rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what’s happening at the moment.
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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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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The only home I had was with Warner Bros. during the ’90s. I made four movies with them then. Natural Born Killers, JFK, Heaven and Earth. Any Given Sunday was the last. And that was the end of the Terry Semel/Bob Daly regime.
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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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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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Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I’m a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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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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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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