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Oliver Stone

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
As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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Framastic People Politics
Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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American Interviews Mona Lisa Politics
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
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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Narrative Suppose Trying
I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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Country Film Half People Want
Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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Country Difficult Horse People Shoot
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Bumped People Thinking
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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Concern Lying Real
Anybody who’s been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they’ve thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn’t that major.
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Divorce Insightful Thinking
Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. … I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.
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Done Scary Way
I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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Comfortable Simplicity
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
In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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Digital Maintain Quality
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

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