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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.

Oliver Stone

When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Directors Looks Process
Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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Christianity Concept Greek
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
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 like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Country Gun People Use
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’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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Experience Trying Understand
The only home I had was with Warner Bros. during the ’90s. I made four movies with them then. Natural Born Killers, JFK, Heaven and Earth. Any Given Sunday was the last. And that was the end of the Terry Semel/Bob Daly regime.
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Country Heaven Home People Sunday
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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Great Greed Movie Year
writing = ass + chair
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Ass Chairs Writing
Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It’s a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose, the sum effect of our work?
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DNA Profound Purpose
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Country Giving Order People Study
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
JFK 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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Calling United States War
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
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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