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.
OLIVER STONEI 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?
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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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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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’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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When I’m working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I’m not interested in credit, but I’m feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.
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