I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
OLIVER STONEI’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.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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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’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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What I’ve experienced, I’m trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
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Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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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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[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 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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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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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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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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