I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
OLIVER STONEI study history in order to give an interpretation.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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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Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.
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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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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It’s a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose, the sum effect of our work?
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I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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I feel like I am what I am.
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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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Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It’s a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it’s hard to know what’s going on unless you really follow it.
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When I’m working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I’m not interested in credit, but I’m feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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Anybody who’s been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they’ve thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn’t that major.
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