When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, “That’s not an Oliver Stone film.” But I don’t know what to do about that except just move on.
OLIVER STONEThe 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.
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 might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
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I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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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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JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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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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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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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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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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writing = ass + chair
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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