Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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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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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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JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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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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Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I’ve tried to get the overall in. I think that’s more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.
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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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Anybody who’s been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they’ve thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn’t that major.
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I’m going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it’s hardware and it’s important. I don’t want to live in a cloud, all my life.
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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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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 don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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