I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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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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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I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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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 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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I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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I feel like I am what I am.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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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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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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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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When I’m working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I’m not interested in credit, but I’m feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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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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