I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
OLIVER STONEWhat I’ve experienced, I’m trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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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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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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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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’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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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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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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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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Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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Each actor requires a different language.
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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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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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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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