From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
OLIVER STONEI’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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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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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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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We weren’t right to do that – I don’t think he did have that consciousness. But we did it for movie reasons – to create empathy.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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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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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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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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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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The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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