I feel like I am what I am.
OLIVER STONEWell, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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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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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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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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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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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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I’d rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what’s happening at the moment.
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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 knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that… it’d be that Don Quixote feeling, that I’d have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you’ve got to do it. That’s the only way you can do things.
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writing = ass + chair
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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I’d like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you’d sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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What I’ve experienced, I’m trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
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