I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
OLIVER STONEPeople will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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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 would vote for the man who’s lived life, who’s done different occupations, who’s been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I’d vote for experience, honest experience.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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I feel like I am what I am.
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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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writing = ass + chair
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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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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It’s my responsibility to find the research. It’s my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
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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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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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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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