What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
OLIVER STONEIt 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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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?
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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I’d rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what’s happening at the moment.
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I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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I feel like I am what I am.
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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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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.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that… it’d be that Don Quixote feeling, that I’d have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you’ve got to do it. That’s the only way you can do things.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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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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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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