I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
OLIVER STONEI’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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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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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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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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I feel like I am what I am.
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it’s read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.
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Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. … I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.
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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 study history in order to give an interpretation.
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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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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them – maybe that’s what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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