A 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.
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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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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I’ve met people who will go to a movie that I can’t stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There’s something they like and identified in that movie, and I don’t see it.
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There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator – greed motivating evolution. But there’s a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.
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I think a lot of people misunderstand what I’m doing, because my films are not easy sometimes. They do deserve a second viewing. I think they get misunderstood easily.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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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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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 think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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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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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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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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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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