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

Oliver Stone

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.
OLIVER STONE

Country Heaven Home People Sunday
I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It’s my responsibility to find the research. It’s my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
OLIVER STONE

Interpretation Research Responsibility
I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
OLIVER STONE

Power Torture
You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It’s hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that’s great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we’ll see.
OLIVER STONE

Best Jobs Mean Somebody Something
We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
OLIVER STONE

Destruction Force Praying
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.
OLIVER STONE

Ambitious Day Feelings One
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
OLIVER STONE

Great Greed Movie Year
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
OLIVER STONE

Bumped People Thinking
In digital, you can maintain the quality.
OLIVER STONE

Digital Maintain Quality
There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.
OLIVER STONE

Country Men People Wall
Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.
OLIVER STONE

Country Oil President
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
OLIVER STONE

Believe Different Interpretation Movie
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.
OLIVER STONE

Film Imagine Tough
Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It’s a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose, the sum effect of our work?
OLIVER STONE

DNA Profound Purpose
As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
OLIVER STONE

Framastic People Politics
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.
OLIVER STONE

Agendas Bombs Country People

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