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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

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.
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Divorce Insightful Thinking
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Country Giving Order People Study
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
What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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Country Done People Poverty
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
When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Directors Looks Process
I’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
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Changed Country People Style
Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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Christianity Concept Greek
I’d like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you’d sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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Age Country Feelings People
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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Best Jobs Mean Somebody Something
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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Connect Giants World
[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We weren’t right to do that – I don’t think he did have that consciousness. But we did it for movie reasons – to create empathy.
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Craft Empathy Thinking
I feel like I am what I am.
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Individual Like
Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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Character Integrate People Strong
I think our life is a series of adventures.
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Adventure Life Thinking
Each actor requires a different language.
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Actors Different Language

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