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I think our life is a series of adventures.

Oliver Stone

I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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Dramatist History Looks Way
There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator – greed motivating evolution. But there’s a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.
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Country Evolution Greed Humans People
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
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 think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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Glasses Mind Thinking
There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.
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Country Men People Wall
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
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
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.
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Best Jobs Mean Somebody Something
Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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Country Ideological People Security
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Envy Jealousy Underestimate
Each actor requires a different language.
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Actors Different Language
The only home I had was with Warner Bros. during the ’90s. I made four movies with them then. Natural Born Killers, JFK, Heaven and Earth. Any Given Sunday was the last. And that was the end of the Terry Semel/Bob Daly regime.
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Country Heaven Home People Sunday
I think a lot of people misunderstand what I’m doing, because my films are not easy sometimes. They do deserve a second viewing. I think they get misunderstood easily.
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Misunderstood People Thinking
You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it’s read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.
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Best Effort Judging Taken

I think our life is a series of adventures.

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