I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?
OLIVER STONEI’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.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. … I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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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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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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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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I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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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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There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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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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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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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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