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Oliver Stone

I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Country Gun People Use
It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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Economic Interesting People Times Tough
[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
We have enormous challenges in front of us.
OLIVER STONE

Challenges Enormous Fronts
I’d rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what’s happening at the moment.
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Moments Past Tyranny
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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Film Moving Stones
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
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
writing = ass + chair
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Ass Chairs Writing
I would vote for the man who’s lived life, who’s done different occupations, who’s been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I’d vote for experience, honest experience.
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Experience Men Real
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.
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Calling United States War
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 do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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Believe Country Leader Lightning People
I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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Experience Trying Understand
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
From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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Helping Moments Running

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