Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
OLIVER STONEIt 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.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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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 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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There 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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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 think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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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’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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What I’ve experienced, I’m trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I’m a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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