What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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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I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It’s my responsibility to find the research. It’s my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
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I will come out with my interpretation. If I’m wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It’s hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that’s great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we’ll see.
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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Anybody who’s been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they’ve thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn’t that major.
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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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I feel like I am what I am.
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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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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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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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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, “That’s not an Oliver Stone film.” But I don’t know what to do about that except just move on.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. … I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.
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