I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
OLIVER STONEThe Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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The only home I had was with Warner Bros. during the ’90s. I made four movies with them then. Natural Born Killers, JFK, Heaven and Earth. Any Given Sunday was the last. And that was the end of the Terry Semel/Bob Daly regime.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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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 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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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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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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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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Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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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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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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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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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 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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