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

Oliver Stone

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
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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Country Oil President
Each actor requires a different language.
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Actors Different Language
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
Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It’s a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose, the sum effect of our work?
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DNA Profound Purpose
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.
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Done Scary Way
When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Directors Looks Process
Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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Hell Impossibility Reason
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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Film Television Way
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
We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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Breaths Knows Mind
Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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Country Ideological People Security
I’ve met people who will go to a movie that I can’t stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There’s something they like and identified in that movie, and I don’t see it.
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Mets People Saws Something
What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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Country Done People Poverty
There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.
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Country Men People Wall
What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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Believe Country People Understanding United States

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