I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
OLIVER STONEJFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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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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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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The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
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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.
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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.
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I feel like I am what I am.
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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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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
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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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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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