The only home I had was with Warner Bros. during the ’90s. I made four movies with them then. Natural Born Killers, JFK, Heaven and Earth. Any Given Sunday was the last. And that was the end of the Terry Semel/Bob Daly regime.
OLIVER STONEI’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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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You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It’s hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that’s great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we’ll see.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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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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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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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them – maybe that’s what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
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I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I’ve tried to get the overall in. I think that’s more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.
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