I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that… it’d be that Don Quixote feeling, that I’d have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you’ve got to do it. That’s the only way you can do things.
OLIVER STONEI think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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I feel like I am what I am.
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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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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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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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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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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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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 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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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it’s read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.
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