I study history in order to give an interpretation.
OLIVER STONEI make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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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 don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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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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Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It’s a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose, the sum effect of our work?
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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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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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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’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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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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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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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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I’m going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it’s hardware and it’s important. I don’t want to live in a cloud, all my life.
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