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You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It’s hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that’s great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we’ll see.

Oliver Stone

When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
OLIVER STONE

Directors Looks Process
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.
OLIVER STONE

Experience Men Real
We have enormous challenges in front of us.
OLIVER STONE

Challenges Enormous Fronts
I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
OLIVER STONE

Missing Next Popcorn
You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It’s hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that’s great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we’ll see.
OLIVER STONE

Best Jobs Mean Somebody Something
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.
OLIVER STONE

Beautiful Beauty Fusion
In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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Digital Maintain Quality
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.
OLIVER STONE

Country Heaven Home People Sunday
I think a lot of people misunderstand what I’m doing, because my films are not easy sometimes. They do deserve a second viewing. I think they get misunderstood easily.
OLIVER STONE

Misunderstood People Thinking
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
OLIVER STONE

Film Television Way
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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Country Dramatic People Trying
The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Assuming Past Present
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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Changed Country People Style
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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Film Imagine Tough
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
OLIVER STONE

Country Gun People Use
As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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Framastic People Politics

You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It’s hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that’s great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we’ll see.

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You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It’s hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that’s great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we’ll see.

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