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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

I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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Experience Trying Understand
This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.
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Agendas Bombs Country People
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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Film Television Way
Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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Country Ideological People Security
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
Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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Christianity Concept Greek
There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator – greed motivating evolution. But there’s a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.
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Country Evolution Greed Humans People
[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
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
Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I’ve tried to get the overall in. I think that’s more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.
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Moving Thinking Two
People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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Clean Dirty People
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Believe Different Interpretation Movie
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
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.
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Film Moving Stones
For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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Reason Shows Television
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

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