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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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 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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Each actor requires a different language.
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What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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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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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’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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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’ve met people who will go to a movie that I can’t stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There’s something they like and identified in that movie, and I don’t see it.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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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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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.
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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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