I think our life is a series of adventures.
OLIVER STONEWhen 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.
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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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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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’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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writing = ass + chair
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Football is mesmerizing, because it’s a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they’re black or white, much as soldiers do.
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I’ve met people who will go to a movie that I can’t stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There’s something they like and identified in that movie, and I don’t see it.
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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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 think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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