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?
OLIVER STONEI’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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.
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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’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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I’d like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you’d sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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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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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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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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I will come out with my interpretation. If I’m wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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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 think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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