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 STONEEvery 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 STONEI’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.
OLIVER STONEI 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.
OLIVER STONEIt’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
OLIVER STONEI’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
OLIVER STONEThe Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
OLIVER STONEI’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 STONEJFK 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 STONEI study history in order to give an interpretation.
OLIVER STONEWhat Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
OLIVER STONEFrom ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
OLIVER STONEI’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
OLIVER STONEGreed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
OLIVER STONEWhen 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.
OLIVER STONEFor some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
OLIVER STONEThere is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator – greed motivating evolution. But there’s a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.
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