Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
OLIVER STONETelevision has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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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 knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that… it’d be that Don Quixote feeling, that I’d have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you’ve got to do it. That’s the only way you can do things.
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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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I feel like I am what I am.
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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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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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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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You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It’s hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that’s great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we’ll see.
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Each actor requires a different language.
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I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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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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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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