I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
OLIVER STONEAnybody 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.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
-
-
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
OLIVER STONE -
Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I’ve tried to get the overall in. I think that’s more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.
OLIVER STONE -
We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
OLIVER STONE -
I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
OLIVER STONE -
I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
OLIVER STONE -
JFK 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.
OLIVER STONE -
writing = ass + chair
OLIVER STONE -
The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
OLIVER STONE -
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.
OLIVER STONE -
I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
OLIVER STONE -
I think our life is a series of adventures.
OLIVER STONE -
I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
OLIVER STONE -
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.
OLIVER STONE -
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.
OLIVER STONE -
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.
OLIVER STONE







