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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.

Oliver Stone

We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
OLIVER STONE

Destruction Force Praying
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.
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Country Heaven Home People Sunday
I think our life is a series of adventures.
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Adventure Life Thinking
The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Country Greek People Playwright
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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Believe Country Leader Lightning People
The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Assuming Past Present
Each actor requires a different language.
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Actors Different Language
From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
OLIVER STONE

Helping Moments Running
When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Directors Looks Process
People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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Clean Dirty People
Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.
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Different Original Stories Style
The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
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Country Nightmares Sweat Worst
What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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Country Done People Poverty
I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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Generation People Thinking
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Country Gun People Use
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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Interpretation Research Responsibility
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Bumped People Thinking
Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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Hell Impossibility Reason
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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Great Greed Movie Year
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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Agendas Bombs Country People
It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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Economic Interesting People Times Tough
We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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Breaths Knows Mind
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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Country Oil President
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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Misunderstood People Thinking
I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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Glasses Mind Thinking
When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, “That’s not an Oliver Stone film.” But I don’t know what to do about that except just move on.
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Film Moving Stones
I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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Comfortable Simplicity

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