Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. … I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.
OLIVER STONEPat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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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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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.
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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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Each actor requires a different language.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
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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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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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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.
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The only home I had was with Warner Bros. during the ’90s. I made four movies with them then. Natural Born Killers, JFK, Heaven and Earth. Any Given Sunday was the last. And that was the end of the Terry Semel/Bob Daly regime.
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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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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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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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