We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
OLIVER STONEThe past assumes the nature of the present.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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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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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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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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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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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 interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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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 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.
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Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.
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What I’ve experienced, I’m trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
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You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it’s read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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I will come out with my interpretation. If I’m wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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