I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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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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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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I’d like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you’d sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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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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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 went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.
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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’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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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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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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