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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

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
Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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Country Ideological People Security
I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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Experience Trying Understand
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
The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
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Campaigns Country Going People
I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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Dramatist History Looks Way
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
I think our life is a series of adventures.
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Adventure Life Thinking
I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?
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Adventure Home Men
I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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Believe Country Leader Lightning People
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.
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Best Effort Judging Taken
The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Assuming Past Present
I 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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Missing Next Popcorn
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
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

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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