The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
OLIVER STONEPeople will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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I feel like I am what I am.
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I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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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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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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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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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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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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I think a lot of people misunderstand what I’m doing, because my films are not easy sometimes. They do deserve a second viewing. I think they get misunderstood easily.
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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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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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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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