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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

Oliver Stone

We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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Breaths Knows Mind
When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Directors Looks Process
Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It’s a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose, the sum effect of our work?
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DNA Profound Purpose
Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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Hell Impossibility Reason
What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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Country Done People Poverty
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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Great Greed Movie Year
The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Assuming Past Present
We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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Destruction Force Praying
As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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Framastic People Politics
From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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Helping Moments Running
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
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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Film Imagine Tough
The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
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Country Nightmares Sweat Worst
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Bumped People Thinking
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.
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Interpretation Research Responsibility
It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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Economic Interesting People Times Tough

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

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