I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
OLIVER STONEI do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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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.
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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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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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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 make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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Football is mesmerizing, because it’s a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they’re black or white, much as soldiers do.
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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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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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