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Oliver Stone

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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Adventure Home Men
The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
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Country Nightmares Sweat Worst
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
From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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Helping Moments Running
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.
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Narrative Suppose Trying
As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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Framastic People Politics
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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Film Television Way
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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Country Evolution Greed Humans People
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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Missing Next Popcorn
[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
It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn’t like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.
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Film Imagine Tough
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Ass Chairs Writing
We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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Challenges Enormous Fronts
Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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Character Integrate People Strong
I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that… it’d be that Don Quixote feeling, that I’d have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you’ve got to do it. That’s the only way you can do things.
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Ambitious Day Feelings One
Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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Christianity Concept Greek

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