I’d like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you’d sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
OLIVER STONETelevision has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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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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JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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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’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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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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I 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?
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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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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’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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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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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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