I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
OLIVER STONEI make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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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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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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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.
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I feel like I am what I am.
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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 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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What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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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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Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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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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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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