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I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.

Oliver Stone

When I’m working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I’m not interested in credit, but I’m feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.
OLIVER STONE

Credit Effort Important
From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
OLIVER STONE

Helping Moments Running
I’d rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what’s happening at the moment.
OLIVER STONE

Moments Past Tyranny
In digital, you can maintain the quality.
OLIVER STONE

Digital Maintain Quality
Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
OLIVER STONE

Country Ideological People Security
When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, “That’s not an Oliver Stone film.” But I don’t know what to do about that except just move on.
OLIVER STONE

Film Moving Stones
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.
OLIVER STONE

Believe Country People Understanding United States
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.
OLIVER STONE

Beautiful Beauty Fusion
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?
OLIVER STONE

DNA Profound Purpose
You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it’s read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.
OLIVER STONE

Best Effort Judging Taken
We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
OLIVER STONE

Breaths Knows Mind
I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
OLIVER STONE

Power Torture
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.
OLIVER STONE

Best Jobs Mean Somebody Something
There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.
OLIVER STONE

Country Men People Wall
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.
OLIVER STONE

Country Fine Give Giving People Take
I think our life is a series of adventures.
OLIVER STONE

Adventure Life Thinking

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