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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More Oliver Stone Quotes
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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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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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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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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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.
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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.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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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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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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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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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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