Horses are very difficult to shoot.
OLIVER STONEI think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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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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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’ve met people who will go to a movie that I can’t stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There’s something they like and identified in that movie, and I don’t see it.
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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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You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it’s read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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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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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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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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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.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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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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