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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

I think a lot of people misunderstand what I’m doing, because my films are not easy sometimes. They do deserve a second viewing. I think they get misunderstood easily.
OLIVER STONE

Misunderstood People Thinking
I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that… it’d be that Don Quixote feeling, that I’d have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you’ve got to do it. That’s the only way you can do things.
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Ambitious Day Feelings One
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.
OLIVER STONE

Narrative Suppose Trying
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Country Giving Order People Study
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
I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
OLIVER STONE

Glasses Mind Thinking
I’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
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Changed Country People Style
I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I’m a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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Country Dramatic People Trying
When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
OLIVER STONE

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

Missing Next Popcorn
I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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Comfortable Simplicity
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Country Gun People Use
People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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Clean Dirty People
I feel like I am what I am.
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Individual Like
Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.
OLIVER STONE

Different Original Stories Style
The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Country Greek People Playwright

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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