Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. … I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.
OLIVER STONEI’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It’s my responsibility to find the research. It’s my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
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I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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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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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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Each actor requires a different language.
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Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It’s a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it’s hard to know what’s going on unless you really follow it.
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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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There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator – greed motivating evolution. But there’s a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.
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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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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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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, “That’s not an Oliver Stone film.” But I don’t know what to do about that except just move on.
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