Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.
OLIVER STONEI 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.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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I’m going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it’s hardware and it’s important. I don’t want to live in a cloud, all my life.
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I’d like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you’d sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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writing = ass + chair
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I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It’s hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that’s great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we’ll see.
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Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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Each actor requires a different language.
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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.
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