I feel like I am what I am.
OLIVER STONEWhen I’m working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I’m not interested in credit, but I’m feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.
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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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 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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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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There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator – greed motivating evolution. But there’s a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.
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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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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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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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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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The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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Each actor requires a different language.
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