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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 have enormous challenges in front of us.
OLIVER STONE

Challenges Enormous Fronts
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
OLIVER STONE

Bumped People Thinking
You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It’s hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that’s great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we’ll see.
OLIVER STONE

Best Jobs Mean Somebody Something
This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.
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Agendas Bombs Country People
[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.
OLIVER STONE

Craft Empathy Thinking
The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
OLIVER STONE

Country Nightmares Sweat Worst
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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Credit Effort Important
I think our life is a series of adventures.
OLIVER STONE

Adventure Life Thinking
Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.
OLIVER STONE

Different Original Stories Style
From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
OLIVER STONE

Helping Moments Running
writing = ass + chair
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Ass Chairs Writing
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.
OLIVER STONE

Character Integrate People Strong
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
Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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Hell Impossibility Reason
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

Mets People Saws Something
For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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Reason Shows Television

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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