The past assumes the nature of the present.
OLIVER STONEFootball 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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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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From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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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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writing = ass + chair
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I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them – maybe that’s what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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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 knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that… it’d be that Don Quixote feeling, that I’d have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you’ve got to do it. That’s the only way you can do things.
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Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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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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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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