What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
OLIVER STONEСyber-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.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.
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It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn’t like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.
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I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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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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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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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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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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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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