What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
OLIVER STONEI think our life is a series of adventures.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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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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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Each actor requires a different language.
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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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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 do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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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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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.
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