The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
OLIVER STONEFrom ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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I feel like I am what I am.
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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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I’m going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it’s hardware and it’s important. I don’t want to live in a cloud, all my life.
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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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Football 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.
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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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[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We weren’t right to do that – I don’t think he did have that consciousness. But we did it for movie reasons – to create empathy.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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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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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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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I’m a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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