I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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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I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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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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I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.
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Each actor requires a different language.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that… it’d be that Don Quixote feeling, that I’d have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you’ve got to do it. That’s the only way you can do things.
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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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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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Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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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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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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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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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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