We have enormous challenges in front of us.
OLIVER STONEThe past assumes the nature of the present.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I’m a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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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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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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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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Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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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 study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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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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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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