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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.

Oliver Stone

When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, “That’s not an Oliver Stone film.” But I don’t know what to do about that except just move on.
OLIVER STONE

Film Moving Stones
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.
OLIVER STONE

Best Effort Judging Taken
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.
OLIVER STONE

Mets People Saws Something
The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
OLIVER STONE

Country Nightmares Sweat Worst
We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
OLIVER STONE

Destruction Force Praying
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
Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.
OLIVER STONE

Country Oil President
I’d rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what’s happening at the moment.
OLIVER STONE

Moments Past Tyranny
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
OLIVER STONE

Great Greed Movie Year
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.
OLIVER STONE

Connect Giants World
I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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Generation People Thinking
Hell is the impossibility of reason.
OLIVER STONE

Hell Impossibility Reason
I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
OLIVER STONE

Dramatist History Looks Way
writing = ass + chair
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Ass Chairs Writing
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.
OLIVER STONE

Country Fine Give Giving People Take
I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
OLIVER STONE

Missing Next Popcorn

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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