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I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.

Oliver Stone

We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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Breaths Knows Mind
We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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Destruction Force Praying
From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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Helping Moments Running
[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
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
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
writing = ass + chair
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Ass Chairs Writing
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
I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I’m a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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Country Dramatic People Trying
Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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Hell Impossibility Reason
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
JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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Calling United States War
We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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Challenges Enormous Fronts
The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Country Greek People Playwright
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.
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Misunderstood People Thinking
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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Great Greed Movie Year

I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.

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