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I’ve met people who will go to a movie that I can’t stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There’s something they like and identified in that movie, and I don’t see it.

Oliver Stone

The past assumes the nature of the present.
OLIVER STONE

Assuming Past Present
There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator – greed motivating evolution. But there’s a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.
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Country Evolution Greed Humans People
There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.
OLIVER STONE

Country Men People Wall
People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
OLIVER STONE

Clean Dirty People
From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
OLIVER STONE

Helping Moments Running
I feel like I am what I am.
OLIVER STONE

Individual Like
I would vote for the man who’s lived life, who’s done different occupations, who’s been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I’d vote for experience, honest experience.
OLIVER STONE

Experience Men Real
I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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Dramatist History Looks Way
Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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Country Difficult Horse People Shoot
I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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Glasses Mind Thinking
We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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Destruction Force Praying
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.
OLIVER STONE

Film Imagine Tough
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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Football Team War
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.
OLIVER STONE

Credit Effort Important
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
OLIVER STONE

Great Greed Movie Year
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.
OLIVER STONE

Age Country Feelings People

I’ve met people who will go to a movie that I can’t stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There’s something they like and identified in that movie, and I don’t see it.

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