black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.

Oliver Stone

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
OLIVER STONE

Great Greed Movie Year
Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them – maybe that’s what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
OLIVER STONE

Connect Giants World
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
OLIVER STONE

Believe Different Interpretation Movie
Each actor requires a different language.
OLIVER STONE

Actors Different Language
I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
OLIVER STONE

might Positive Taken
You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It’s hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that’s great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we’ll see.
OLIVER STONE

Best Jobs Mean Somebody Something
Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
OLIVER STONE

Animal Army Exercise
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 STONE

Believe Country Leader Lightning People
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
OLIVER STONE

Film Television Way
JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
OLIVER STONE

Calling United States War
When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, “That’s not an Oliver Stone film.” But I don’t know what to do about that except just move on.
OLIVER STONE

Film Moving Stones
People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
OLIVER STONE

Clean Dirty People
I feel like I am what I am.
OLIVER STONE

Individual Like
[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We weren’t right to do that – I don’t think he did have that consciousness. But we did it for movie reasons – to create empathy.
OLIVER STONE

Craft Empathy Thinking
Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
OLIVER STONE

Christianity Concept Greek
You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it’s read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.
OLIVER STONE

Best Effort Judging Taken

I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Oliver Stone Quotes