I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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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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The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.
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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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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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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 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 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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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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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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I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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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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