Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I’ve tried to get the overall in. I think that’s more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.
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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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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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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writing = ass + chair
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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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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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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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 think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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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’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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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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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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