I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
OLIVER STONEI think our life is a series of adventures.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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Each actor requires a different language.
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[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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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I’m a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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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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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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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. … I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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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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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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