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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

The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Assuming Past Present
Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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Country Difficult Horse People Shoot
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
Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
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Animal Army Exercise
I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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Comfortable Simplicity
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
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
Each actor requires a different language.
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Actors Different Language
I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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Glasses Mind Thinking
[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We weren’t right to do that – I don’t think he did have that consciousness. But we did it for movie reasons – to create empathy.
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Craft Empathy 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
JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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Calling United States War
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Country Giving Order People Study
I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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Generation People Thinking
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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Film Television Way
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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