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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 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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Misunderstood People Thinking
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
The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Assuming Past Present
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
We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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Breaths Knows Mind
People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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Clean Dirty People
Each actor requires a different language.
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Actors Different Language
[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
I’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
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Changed Country People Style
I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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Power Torture
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
This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.
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Agendas Bombs Country People
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
Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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Country Ideological People Security
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Believe Different Interpretation Movie
I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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might Positive Taken

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

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