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.
OLIVER STONEI 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.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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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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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From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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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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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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I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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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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I feel like I am what I am.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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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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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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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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