There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.
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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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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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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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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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them – maybe that’s what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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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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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It’s a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose, the sum effect of our work?
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, “That’s not an Oliver Stone film.” But I don’t know what to do about that except just move on.
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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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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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