When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
OLIVER STONEWe pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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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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Each actor requires a different language.
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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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Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It’s hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that’s great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we’ll see.
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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 would vote for the man who’s lived life, who’s done different occupations, who’s been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I’d vote for experience, honest experience.
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