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.
OLIVER STONEGet the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I’ve tried to get the overall in. I think that’s more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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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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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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writing = ass + chair
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When 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.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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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.
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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I feel like I am what I am.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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Anybody who’s been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they’ve thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn’t that major.
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It 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.
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