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.
OLIVER STONEI do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it’s read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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writing = ass + chair
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Anybody who’s been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they’ve thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn’t that major.
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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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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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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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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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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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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them – maybe that’s what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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