I would vote for the man who’s lived life, who’s done different occupations, who’s been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I’d vote for experience, honest experience.
OLIVER STONEI’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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Obama 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.
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I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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When I’m working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I’m not interested in credit, but I’m feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.
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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
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Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I’ve tried to get the overall in. I think that’s more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.
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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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Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It’s a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it’s hard to know what’s going on unless you really follow it.
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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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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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What I’ve experienced, I’m trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
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