The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
OLIVER STONEChristianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I’ve tried to get the overall in. I think that’s more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.
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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It’s a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it’s hard to know what’s going on unless you really follow it.
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Football is mesmerizing, because it’s a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they’re black or white, much as soldiers do.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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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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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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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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There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator – greed motivating evolution. But there’s a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.
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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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I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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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.
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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 met people who will go to a movie that I can’t stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There’s something they like and identified in that movie, and I don’t see it.
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