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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. ↗

— Oliver Stone

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Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#been #before #coming #coming home #deer

Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World. ↗

— Oliver Stone

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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. ↗

— Oliver Stone

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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations. ↗

— Oliver Stone

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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. ↗

— Oliver Stone

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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history. ↗

— Oliver Stone

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I study history in order to give an interpretation. ↗

— Oliver Stone

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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future. ↗

— Oliver Stone

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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power. ↗

— Oliver Stone

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