I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It’s my responsibility to find the research. It’s my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
OLIVER STONEFootball 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.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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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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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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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It’s a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it’s hard to know what’s going on unless you really follow it.
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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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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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writing = ass + chair
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I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator – greed motivating evolution. But there’s a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.
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