I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
OLIVER STONEI think our life is a series of adventures.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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I’d rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what’s happening at the moment.
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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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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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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 don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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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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From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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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 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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