I’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
OLIVER STONEGreed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that… it’d be that Don Quixote feeling, that I’d have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you’ve got to do it. That’s the only way you can do things.
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It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn’t like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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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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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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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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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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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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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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I feel like I am what I am.
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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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I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
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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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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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