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.
OLIVER STONEI’d like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you’d sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Each actor requires a different language.
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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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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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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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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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writing = ass + chair
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I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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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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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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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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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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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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