I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
OLIVER STONEWell, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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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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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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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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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them – maybe that’s what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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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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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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I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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