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Oliver Stone

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.
OLIVER STONE

Misunderstood People Thinking
In digital, you can maintain the quality.
OLIVER STONE

Digital Maintain Quality
As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
OLIVER STONE

Framastic People Politics
Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.
OLIVER STONE

Different Original Stories Style
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.
OLIVER STONE

Best Jobs Mean Somebody Something
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.
OLIVER STONE

Experience Men Real
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.
OLIVER STONE

Country Heaven Home People Sunday
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
We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
OLIVER STONE

Breaths Knows Mind
I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?
OLIVER STONE

Adventure Home Men
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
OLIVER STONE

Country Gun People Use
The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
OLIVER STONE

Country Greek People Playwright
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
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
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.
OLIVER STONE

Ambitious Day Feelings One
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.
OLIVER STONE

Divorce Insightful Thinking

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