I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
OLIVER STONEI might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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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 don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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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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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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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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When 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.
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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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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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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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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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