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.
OLIVER STONEI’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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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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I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Anybody who’s been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they’ve thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn’t that major.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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I feel like I am what I am.
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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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I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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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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