I think our life is a series of adventures.
OLIVER STONEI’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn’t like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them – maybe that’s what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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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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This 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.
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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.
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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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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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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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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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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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What 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.
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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator – greed motivating evolution. But there’s a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.
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