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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

Oliver Stone

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’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
The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Assuming Past Present
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
I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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Experience Trying Understand
I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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Country Film Half People Want
When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Directors Looks Process
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
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
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
I think a lot of people misunderstand what I’m doing, because my films are not easy sometimes. They do deserve a second viewing. I think they get misunderstood easily.
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Misunderstood People Thinking
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Country Gun People Use
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 that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Bumped People Thinking
I’m going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it’s hardware and it’s important. I don’t want to live in a cloud, all my life.
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Cloud Important Thinking
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

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