I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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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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’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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I feel like I am what I am.
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This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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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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You 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.
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I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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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.
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Each actor requires a different language.
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You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It’s hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that’s great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we’ll see.
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I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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