Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
OLIVER STONEI don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
-
-
Horses are very difficult to shoot.
OLIVER STONE -
What I’ve experienced, I’m trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
OLIVER STONE -
I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
OLIVER STONE -
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
OLIVER STONE -
I think our life is a series of adventures.
OLIVER STONE -
Anybody who’s been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they’ve thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn’t that major.
OLIVER STONE -
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
OLIVER STONE -
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
OLIVER STONE -
When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
OLIVER STONE -
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 -
Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
OLIVER STONE -
When I’m working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I’m not interested in credit, but I’m feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.
OLIVER STONE -
I’m going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it’s hardware and it’s important. I don’t want to live in a cloud, all my life.
OLIVER STONE -
Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
OLIVER STONE -
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