I’d rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what’s happening at the moment.
OLIVER STONEEach actor requires a different language.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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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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I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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I feel like I am what I am.
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writing = ass + chair
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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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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I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We weren’t right to do that – I don’t think he did have that consciousness. But we did it for movie reasons – to create empathy.
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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.
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I’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
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