I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
OLIVER STONEGreed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
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I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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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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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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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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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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I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that… it’d be that Don Quixote feeling, that I’d have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you’ve got to do it. That’s the only way you can do things.
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I’m going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it’s hardware and it’s important. I don’t want to live in a cloud, all my life.
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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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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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