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Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.

Oliver Stone

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
OLIVER STONE

Envy Jealousy Underestimate
When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
OLIVER STONE

Directors Looks Process
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.
OLIVER STONE

Interpretation Research Responsibility
I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
OLIVER STONE

Comfortable Simplicity
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.
OLIVER STONE

Country Evolution Greed Humans People
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
OLIVER STONE

Film Television Way
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
OLIVER STONE

Believe Different Interpretation Movie
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.
OLIVER STONE

Best Effort Judging Taken
writing = ass + chair
OLIVER STONE

Ass Chairs Writing
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.
OLIVER STONE

Narrative Suppose Trying
In digital, you can maintain the quality.
OLIVER STONE

Digital Maintain Quality
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.
OLIVER STONE

Film Moving Stones
The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
OLIVER STONE

Country Nightmares Sweat Worst
I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
OLIVER STONE

Dramatist History Looks Way
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?
OLIVER STONE

DNA Profound Purpose
I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
OLIVER STONE

Country Film Half People Want

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