I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
OLIVER STONEIt’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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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’d rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what’s happening at the moment.
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I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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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.
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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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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 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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The only home I had was with Warner Bros. during the ’90s. I made four movies with them then. Natural Born Killers, JFK, Heaven and Earth. Any Given Sunday was the last. And that was the end of the Terry Semel/Bob Daly regime.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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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 would vote for the man who’s lived life, who’s done different occupations, who’s been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I’d vote for experience, honest experience.
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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writing = ass + chair
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