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Oliver Stone Quotes

Oliver Stone quotes

American Director September 15, 1946

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Oliver Stone quote: "I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I..."
I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can. Oliver Stone
I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience. Oliver Stone
One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia. Oliver Stone
But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy. Oliver Stone
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
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. Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone quote: "But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of..."
But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing. Oliver Stone
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. Oliver Stone
I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future. Oliver Stone
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. Oliver Stone
I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it. Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone quote: "Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer..."
Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies. Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone quote: "It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest,..."
It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism. Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone quote: "I think that many people in history who had power were bumped..."
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power. Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone quote: "Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of..."
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. Oliver Stone

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