I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
OLIVER STONEI don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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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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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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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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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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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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Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It’s a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose, the sum effect of our work?
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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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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Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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Anybody who’s been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they’ve thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn’t that major.
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