I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
OLIVER STONEThe only home I had was with Warner Bros. during the ’90s. I made four movies with them then. Natural Born Killers, JFK, Heaven and Earth. Any Given Sunday was the last. And that was the end of the Terry Semel/Bob Daly regime.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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writing = ass + chair
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Each actor requires a different language.
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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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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
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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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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It’s hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that’s great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we’ll see.
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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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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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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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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