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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.

Oliver Stone

Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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Hell Impossibility Reason
There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.
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Country Men People Wall
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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Film Television Way
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 you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Directors Looks Process
In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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Digital Maintain Quality
What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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Country Done People Poverty
What I’ve experienced, I’m trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
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Narrative Suppose Trying
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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Changed Country People Style
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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Character Integrate People Strong
Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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Country Difficult Horse People Shoot
writing = ass + chair
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Ass Chairs Writing
I feel like I am what I am.
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Individual Like
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
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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Best Jobs Mean Somebody Something
I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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Country Film Half People Want
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
People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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Clean Dirty People
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 look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?
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Adventure Home Men
We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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Challenges Enormous Fronts
For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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Reason Shows Television
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
We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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Breaths Knows Mind
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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Differences Marijuana Weed
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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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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