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.
OLIVER STONEIt’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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Each actor requires a different language.
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Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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When I’m working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I’m not interested in credit, but I’m feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.
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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.
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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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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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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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.
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