I feel like I am what I am.
OLIVER STONEPeople will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
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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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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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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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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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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 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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I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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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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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 have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It’s my responsibility to find the research. It’s my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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