As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
OLIVER STONEJFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one 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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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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The only home I had was with Warner Bros. during the ’90s. I made four movies with them then. Natural Born Killers, JFK, Heaven and Earth. Any Given Sunday was the last. And that was the end of the Terry Semel/Bob Daly regime.
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I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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I’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.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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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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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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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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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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Football is mesmerizing, because it’s a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they’re black or white, much as soldiers do.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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