I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
OLIVER STONEI don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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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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.
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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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There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator – greed motivating evolution. But there’s a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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writing = ass + chair
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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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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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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