I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
OLIVER STONEI think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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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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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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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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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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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’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
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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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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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I feel like I am what I am.
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I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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[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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