I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
OLIVER STONETelevision has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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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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I’d like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you’d sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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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’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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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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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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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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writing = ass + chair
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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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I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them – maybe that’s what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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