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.
OLIVER STONEAnybody who’s been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they’ve thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn’t that major.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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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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I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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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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Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.
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JFK 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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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I’m a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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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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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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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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