People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
OLIVER STONEWhat I’ve experienced, I’m trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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.
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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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I would vote for the man who’s lived life, who’s done different occupations, who’s been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I’d vote for experience, honest experience.
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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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Each actor requires a different language.
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I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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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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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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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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I feel like I am what I am.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them – maybe that’s what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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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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