The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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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Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.
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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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This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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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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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.
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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.
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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’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.
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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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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
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There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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