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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

We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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Breaths Knows Mind
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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DNA Profound Purpose
I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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Comfortable Simplicity
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?
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Adventure Home Men
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Envy Jealousy Underestimate
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
I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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Experience Trying Understand
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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Character Integrate People Strong
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Believe Different Interpretation Movie
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
When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Directors Looks Process
I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.
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Differences Marijuana Weed
Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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Hell Impossibility Reason
We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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Destruction Force Praying
Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
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Animal Army Exercise
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Bumped People Thinking

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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