I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
OLIVER STONEEvery 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.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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’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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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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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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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 will come out with my interpretation. If I’m wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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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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I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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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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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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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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What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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