The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
OLIVER STONEI think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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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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I’d rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what’s happening at the moment.
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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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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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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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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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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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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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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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The only home I had was with Warner Bros. during the ’90s. I made four movies with them then. Natural Born Killers, JFK, Heaven and Earth. Any Given Sunday was the last. And that was the end of the Terry Semel/Bob Daly regime.
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There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator – greed motivating evolution. But there’s a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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