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.
OLIVER STONEI 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?
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’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
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[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We weren’t right to do that – I don’t think he did have that consciousness. But we did it for movie reasons – to create empathy.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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writing = ass + chair
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I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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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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I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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When I’m working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I’m not interested in credit, but I’m feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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