When I’m working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I’m not interested in credit, but I’m feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.
OLIVER STONEСyber-warfare is obviously the future. It’s a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it’s hard to know what’s going on unless you really follow it.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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Many 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?
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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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 study history in order to give an interpretation.
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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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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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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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