Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
OLIVER STONEWhen I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, “That’s not an Oliver Stone film.” But I don’t know what to do about that except just move on.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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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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I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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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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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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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 am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I’m a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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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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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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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’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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