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.
OLIVER STONEJFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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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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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them – maybe that’s what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.
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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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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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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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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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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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I’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.
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I feel like I am what I am.
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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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