I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I’m a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
OLIVER STONEThe worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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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 study history in order to give an interpretation.
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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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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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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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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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I would vote for the man who’s lived life, who’s done different occupations, who’s been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I’d vote for experience, honest experience.
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I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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