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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.

Oliver Stone

I study history in order to give an interpretation.
OLIVER STONE

Country Giving Order People Study
You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It’s hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that’s great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we’ll see.
OLIVER STONE

Best Jobs Mean Somebody Something
I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
OLIVER STONE

Missing Next Popcorn
What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
OLIVER STONE

Country Done People Poverty
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
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
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 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.
OLIVER STONE

Experience Men Real
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.
OLIVER STONE

Concern Lying Real
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
OLIVER STONE

Film Television Way
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.
OLIVER STONE

Country Dramatic People Trying
I’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
OLIVER STONE

Changed Country People Style
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
OLIVER STONE

Believe Different Interpretation Movie
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

Best Effort Judging Taken
I’ve met people who will go to a movie that I can’t stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There’s something they like and identified in that movie, and I don’t see it.
OLIVER STONE

Mets People Saws Something

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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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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