I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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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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It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn’t like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.
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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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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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Each actor requires a different language.
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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 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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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.
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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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