I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
OLIVER STONEFear 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.
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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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
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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 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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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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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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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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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It’s a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it’s hard to know what’s going on unless you really follow it.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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