People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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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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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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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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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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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 make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.
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What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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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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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn’t like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.
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I 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.
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