I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
OLIVER STONEI 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.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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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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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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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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I will come out with my interpretation. If I’m wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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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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The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
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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’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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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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