Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
OLIVER STONEI like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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 study history in order to give an interpretation.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. … I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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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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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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writing = ass + chair
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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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 feel like I am what I am.
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What I’ve experienced, I’m trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
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