I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
OLIVER STONEWhat Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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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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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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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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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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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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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 might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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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 think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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writing = ass + chair
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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’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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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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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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