I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
OLIVER STONEWhen you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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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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I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.
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I think a lot of people misunderstand what I’m doing, because my films are not easy sometimes. They do deserve a second viewing. I think they get misunderstood easily.
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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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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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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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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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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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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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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 think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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writing = ass + chair
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