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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.

Oliver Stone

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 do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Believe Different Interpretation Movie
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
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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Great Greed Movie Year
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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Experience Men Real
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
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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Country Dramatic People Trying
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
We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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Challenges Enormous Fronts
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
For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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Reason Shows Television
I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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Dramatist History Looks Way
Football 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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Football Team War
writing = ass + chair
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Ass Chairs Writing
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Country Giving Order People Study
It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn’t like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.
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Film Imagine Tough

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