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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.

Oliver Stone

I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Country Giving Order People Study
Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I’ve tried to get the overall in. I think that’s more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.
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Moving Thinking Two
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Believe Different Interpretation Movie
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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Beautiful Beauty Fusion
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
I think our life is a series of adventures.
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Adventure Life Thinking
[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
Each actor requires a different language.
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Actors Different Language
I will come out with my interpretation. If I’m wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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Country Fine Give Giving People Take
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.
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Country Oil President
The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Country Greek People Playwright
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
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
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
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.
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Film Moving Stones
Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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Hell Impossibility Reason

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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