Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
OLIVER STONEThe Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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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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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I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that… it’d be that Don Quixote feeling, that I’d have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you’ve got to do it. That’s the only way you can do things.
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When I’m working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I’m not interested in credit, but I’m feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.
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Each actor requires a different language.
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It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn’t like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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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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Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It’s a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it’s hard to know what’s going on unless you really follow it.
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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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I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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