The zero-sum game: That’s the way it is if you’re a competitive person and you see capitalism in that way. Zero-sum game implies winners and losers, which I don’t agree with. Somebody has to win and somebody has to lose, it all comes back to zero (minus eight, plus eight). But I don’t agree with that because all boats can rise on a rising sea. Good films can help other films to be open. There’s a different psychology at work. If you’re overly competitive, you’ll be exclusionary and say it’s a zero-sum game (I must get eight and he must lose eight).

– Oliver Stone (adapted)
Film Producer