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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

I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
OLIVER STONE

Power Torture
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
You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It’s hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that’s great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we’ll see.
OLIVER STONE

Best Jobs Mean Somebody Something
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
People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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Clean Dirty People
From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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Helping Moments Running
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
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
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
Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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Country Difficult Horse People Shoot
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Bumped People Thinking
I’d like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you’d sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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Age Country Feelings People
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 am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I’m a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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Country Dramatic People Trying
When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Directors Looks Process
writing = ass + chair
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Ass Chairs Writing

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