I think a lot of people misunderstand what I’m doing, because my films are not easy sometimes. They do deserve a second viewing. I think they get misunderstood easily.
OLIVER STONEFor some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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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Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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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 think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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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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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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I’m going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it’s hardware and it’s important. I don’t want to live in a cloud, all my life.
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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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