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I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

Oliver Stone

[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
The only home I had was with Warner Bros. during the ’90s. I made four movies with them then. Natural Born Killers, JFK, Heaven and Earth. Any Given Sunday was the last. And that was the end of the Terry Semel/Bob Daly regime.
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Country Heaven Home People Sunday
For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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Reason Shows Television
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
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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Concern Lying Real
I’d like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you’d sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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Age Country Feelings People
I feel like I am what I am.
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Individual Like
Each actor requires a different language.
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Actors Different Language
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
What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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Country Done People Poverty
The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Assuming Past Present
Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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Hell Impossibility Reason
Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.
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Different Original Stories Style
I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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Glasses Mind Thinking
We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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Destruction Force Praying
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

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