I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
OLIVER STONEWhen you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them – maybe that’s what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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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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It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn’t like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.
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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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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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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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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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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 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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writing = ass + chair
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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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I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. … I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.
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