The past assumes the nature of the present.
OLIVER STONEI’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.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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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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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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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 do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Each actor requires a different language.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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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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Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It’s a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it’s hard to know what’s going on unless you really follow it.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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