As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
OLIVER STONEObama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. … I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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I’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
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I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?
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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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There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.
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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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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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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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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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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 will come out with my interpretation. If I’m wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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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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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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