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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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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it’s read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I’m a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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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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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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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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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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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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Each actor requires a different language.
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I will come out with my interpretation. If I’m wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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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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