I think a lot of people misunderstand what I’m doing, because my films are not easy sometimes. They do deserve a second viewing. I think they get misunderstood easily.
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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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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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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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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Every 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.
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. … I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.
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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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I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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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 study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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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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