I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It’s my responsibility to find the research. It’s my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
OLIVER STONENever underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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 past assumes the nature of the present.
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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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I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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writing = ass + chair
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I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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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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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 would vote for the man who’s lived life, who’s done different occupations, who’s been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I’d vote for experience, honest experience.
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Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It’s a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it’s hard to know what’s going on unless you really follow it.
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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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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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