I’d like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you’d sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
OLIVER STONEYou 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.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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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.
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I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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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.
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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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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’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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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 knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that… it’d be that Don Quixote feeling, that I’d have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you’ve got to do it. That’s the only way you can do things.
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I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It’s my responsibility to find the research. It’s my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become 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 think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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I 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.
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