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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.

Oliver Stone

I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Believe Different Interpretation Movie
The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Country Greek People Playwright
I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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Power Torture
This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.
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Agendas Bombs Country People
In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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Digital Maintain Quality
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
Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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Country Difficult Horse People Shoot
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
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
People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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Clean Dirty People
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
It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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Economic Interesting People Times Tough
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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Country Nightmares Sweat Worst
For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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Reason Shows Television
We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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Breaths Knows Mind

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