I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
OLIVER STONEI might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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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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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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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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Each actor requires a different language.
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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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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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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 that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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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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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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What I’ve experienced, I’m trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
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What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It’s a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose, the sum effect of our work?
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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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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Football is mesmerizing, because it’s a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they’re black or white, much as soldiers do.
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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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When 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.
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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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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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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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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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