When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
OLIVER STONEYou can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it’s read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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I’ve met people who will go to a movie that I can’t stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There’s something they like and identified in that movie, and I don’t see it.
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I would vote for the man who’s lived life, who’s done different occupations, who’s been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I’d vote for experience, honest experience.
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I feel like I am what I am.
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It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn’t like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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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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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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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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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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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.
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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
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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.
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Each actor requires a different language.
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I’d rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what’s happening at the moment.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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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.
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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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I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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