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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.

Oliver Stone

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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Moving Thinking Two
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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Concern Lying Real
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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Film Television Way
The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Assuming Past Present
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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Credit Effort Important
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
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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Divorce Insightful Thinking
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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Moments Past Tyranny
As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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Framastic People Politics
I’m going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it’s hardware and it’s important. I don’t want to live in a cloud, all my life.
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Cloud Important Thinking
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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Country Evolution Greed Humans People
Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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Hell Impossibility Reason
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Bumped People Thinking
For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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Reason Shows Television
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 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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