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.
OLIVER STONEI study history in order to give an interpretation.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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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I’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
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What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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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 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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[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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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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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It’s hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that’s great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we’ll see.
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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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I’ve met people who will go to a movie that I can’t stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There’s something they like and identified in that movie, and I don’t see it.
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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 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.
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