I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
OLIVER STONEI knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that… it’d be that Don Quixote feeling, that I’d have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you’ve got to do it. That’s the only way you can do things.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Football is mesmerizing, because it’s a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they’re black or white, much as soldiers do.
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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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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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The only home I had was with Warner Bros. during the ’90s. I made four movies with them then. Natural Born Killers, JFK, Heaven and Earth. Any Given Sunday was the last. And that was the end of the Terry Semel/Bob Daly regime.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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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 think our life is a series of adventures.
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I feel like I am what I am.
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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It’s my responsibility to find the research. It’s my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
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I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?
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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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