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Oliver Stone

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
From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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Helping Moments Running
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
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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Campaigns Country Going People
Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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Hell Impossibility Reason
It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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Economic Interesting People Times Tough
I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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Comfortable Simplicity
[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We weren’t right to do that – I don’t think he did have that consciousness. But we did it for movie reasons – to create empathy.
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Craft Empathy Thinking
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
You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it’s read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.
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Best Effort Judging Taken
What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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Country Done People Poverty
Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.
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Different Original Stories Style
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
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
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
Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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Country Difficult Horse People Shoot
I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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Believe Country Leader Lightning People
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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Interpretation Research Responsibility
Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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Christianity Concept Greek
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
I will come out with my interpretation. If I’m wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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Country Fine Give Giving People Take
We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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Challenges Enormous Fronts
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
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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Ambitious Day Feelings One
What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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Believe Country People Understanding United States
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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Moments Past Tyranny
Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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American Interviews Mona Lisa Politics

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