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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.

Oliver Stone

It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn’t like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.
OLIVER STONE

Film Imagine Tough
I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
OLIVER STONE

Comfortable Simplicity
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.
OLIVER STONE

Misunderstood People Thinking
I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
OLIVER STONE

Country Film Half People Want
When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, “That’s not an Oliver Stone film.” But I don’t know what to do about that except just move on.
OLIVER STONE

Film Moving Stones
I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
OLIVER STONE

Dramatist History Looks Way
When 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.
OLIVER STONE

Credit Effort Important
JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
OLIVER STONE

Calling United States War
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
OLIVER STONE

Believe Different Interpretation Movie
Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
OLIVER STONE

American Interviews Mona Lisa Politics
Each actor requires a different language.
OLIVER STONE

Actors Different Language
For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
OLIVER STONE

Reason Shows Television
Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
OLIVER STONE

Christianity Concept Greek
When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
OLIVER STONE

Directors Looks Process
Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
OLIVER STONE

Animal Army Exercise
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.
OLIVER STONE

Beautiful Beauty Fusion

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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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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