For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
OLIVER STONEHorses are very difficult to shoot.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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I feel like I am what I am.
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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.
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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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What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.
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When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, “That’s not an Oliver Stone film.” But I don’t know what to do about that except just move on.
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I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.
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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 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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JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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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 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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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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