I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
OLIVER STONETelevision has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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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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Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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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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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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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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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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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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