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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.

Oliver Stone

Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I’ve tried to get the overall in. I think that’s more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.
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Moving Thinking Two
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
OLIVER STONE

Film Television Way
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Envy Jealousy Underestimate
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
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.
OLIVER STONE

Beautiful Beauty Fusion
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.
OLIVER STONE

Calling United States War
You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it’s read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.
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Best Effort Judging Taken
I’m going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it’s hardware and it’s important. I don’t want to live in a cloud, all my life.
OLIVER STONE

Cloud Important Thinking
We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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Destruction Force Praying
I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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Power Torture
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

Moments Past Tyranny
What I’ve experienced, I’m trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
OLIVER STONE

Narrative Suppose Trying
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Country Gun People Use
As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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Framastic People Politics
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 make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
OLIVER STONE

Missing Next Popcorn

I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.

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