We have enormous challenges in front of us.
OLIVER STONEBin 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 would vote for the man who’s lived life, who’s done different occupations, who’s been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I’d vote for experience, honest experience.
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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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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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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.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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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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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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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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When I’m working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I’m not interested in credit, but I’m feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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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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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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