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 STONEI 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.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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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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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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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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 went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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I feel like I am what I am.
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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
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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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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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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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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.
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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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