We have enormous challenges in front of us.
OLIVER STONEI do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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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 past assumes the nature of the present.
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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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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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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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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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There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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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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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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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 went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.
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