I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
OLIVER STONEI think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
OLIVER STONEI study history in order to give an interpretation.
OLIVER STONEI’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.
OLIVER STONEI 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.
OLIVER STONEWhat needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
OLIVER STONEIt’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
OLIVER STONEThe past assumes the nature of the present.
OLIVER STONEI’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
OLIVER STONEwriting = ass + chair
OLIVER STONEMany films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It’s a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose, the sum effect of our work?
OLIVER STONEI’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
OLIVER STONEI feel like I am what I am.
OLIVER STONEWe have enormous challenges in front of us.
OLIVER STONEThis 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.
OLIVER STONEWhen 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.
OLIVER STONEI might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
OLIVER STONE