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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 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.
OLIVER STONE

Ambitious Day Feelings One
What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
OLIVER STONE

Country Done People Poverty
It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
OLIVER STONE

Economic Interesting People Times Tough
We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
OLIVER STONE

Destruction Force Praying
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
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
Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
OLIVER STONE

American Interviews Mona Lisa Politics
Each actor requires a different language.
OLIVER STONE

Actors Different Language
From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
OLIVER STONE

Helping Moments Running
The only home I had was with Warner Bros. during the ’90s. I made four movies with them then. Natural Born Killers, JFK, Heaven and Earth. Any Given Sunday was the last. And that was the end of the Terry Semel/Bob Daly regime.
OLIVER STONE

Country Heaven Home People Sunday
I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
OLIVER STONE

Country Film Half People Want
The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Country Greek People Playwright
I feel like I am what I am.
OLIVER STONE

Individual Like
The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
OLIVER STONE

Country Nightmares Sweat Worst
I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
OLIVER STONE

Glasses Mind Thinking
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

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.

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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.

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