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.
OLIVER STONEPat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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I feel like I am what I am.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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When I’m working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I’m not interested in credit, but I’m feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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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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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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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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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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I’m going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it’s hardware and it’s important. I don’t want to live in a cloud, all my life.
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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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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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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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