When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
OLIVER STONEI will come out with my interpretation. If I’m wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Anybody 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.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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What I’ve experienced, I’m trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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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 think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I’ve tried to get the overall in. I think that’s more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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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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