We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
OLIVER STONENever underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It’s a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose, the sum effect of our work?
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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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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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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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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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 that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It’s my responsibility to find the research. It’s my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
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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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