I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
OLIVER STONEWell, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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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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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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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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 feel like I am what I am.
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Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.
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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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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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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.
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[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We weren’t right to do that – I don’t think he did have that consciousness. But we did it for movie reasons – to create empathy.
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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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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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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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