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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.
OLIVER STONE

Misunderstood People Thinking
I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?
OLIVER STONE

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

Power Torture
I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
OLIVER STONE

Comfortable Simplicity
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
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
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
OLIVER STONE

Country Giving Order People Study
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
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.
OLIVER STONE

Beautiful Beauty Fusion
Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
OLIVER STONE

Christianity Concept Greek
The past assumes the nature of the present.
OLIVER STONE

Assuming Past Present
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’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
OLIVER STONE

Changed Country People Style
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.
OLIVER STONE

Divorce Insightful Thinking
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 STONE

Country Oil President

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