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.
OLIVER STONEI 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.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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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.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
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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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I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.
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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’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
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I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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The only home I had was with Warner Bros. during the ’90s. I made four movies with them then. Natural Born Killers, JFK, Heaven and Earth. Any Given Sunday was the last. And that was the end of the Terry Semel/Bob Daly regime.
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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.
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I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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