I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
OLIVER STONEA woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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I’d rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what’s happening at the moment.
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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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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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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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.
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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 do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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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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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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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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I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It’s my responsibility to find the research. It’s my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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