Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
OLIVER STONEI like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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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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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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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.
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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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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.
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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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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.
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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?
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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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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I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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