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.
OLIVER STONEPeople will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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 don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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I’d rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what’s happening at the moment.
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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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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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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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[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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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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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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I’ve met people who will go to a movie that I can’t stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There’s something they like and identified in that movie, and I don’t see it.
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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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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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