I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
OLIVER STONEThe Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I’ve tried to get the overall in. I think that’s more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.
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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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I’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
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I’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.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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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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From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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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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Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
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The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
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