I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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More Oliver Stone Quotes
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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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 think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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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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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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From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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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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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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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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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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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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