I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
OLIVER STONEWe all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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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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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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I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?
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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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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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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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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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I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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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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