Oliver Stone Quotes

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• 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.

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  Past, Thinking, Experience

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• Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

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  Jealousy, Envy, Underestimate

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• One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

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  Movie, Joy, Should

  FaceBook post by Oliver Stone from Apr 27, 2012

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• When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

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  Directors, Looks, Process

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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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  Beauty, Beautiful, Fusion

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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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  Divorce, Thinking, Insightful

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• What scares me most about the media is that so many of them don't realize that by presenting and highlighting certain issues, opinions, and perspectives over others, they can manipulate and control people's beliefs in subtle ways.

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  Issues, Media, Perspective

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• 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.

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  Real, Men, Experience

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• People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.

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  Passion, People, Live In The Moment

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.

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  Weed, Marijuana, Differences

  "Oliver Stone: Marijuana saved me from ‘becoming a beast’ in Vietnam" by Stephen C. Webster, www.rawstory.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier and more fun to hear what someone has to say.

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  Fun, Nuts, Would Be

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• Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

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  Victory, Helping, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Football is mesmerizing, because it's a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they're black or white, much as soldiers do.

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  Football, War, Team

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• I think our life is a series of adventures.

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  Adventure, Thinking, Life Is

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Hell is the impossibility of reason.

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  Hell, Reason, Impossibility

  Oliver Stone, Richard Boyle (1987). “Oliver Stone's Platoon & Salvador”, Vintage

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• Everyone in the world is impacted by the United States' Big Brother attitude toward the world. We need countries to say no to the United States. The United States is the dominant power in the universe, with its eavesdropping abilities, cyber abilities. And the world is in danger with our tyranny.

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  Country, Brother, Attitude

  "Oliver Stone Tells European Audience on Fourth of July 'The World is in Danger With Our Tyranny'" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. July 4, 2013.

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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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  Sweat, Worst Nightmares, Vietnam

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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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  Looks, Way

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. October 16, 2008.

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• If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

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  Heart, What Matters, Matter

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.

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  Positive, Taken, Might

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• I was trying to find out what happened in my lifetime, because I was an older man. We lived through two terms of George Bush, and I was wondering, "Is he an exception to the rule, or he is a continuation? What is driving all these wars? What is driving this attitude of aggressiveness and militarism?" I got my answer - and it was a shocking answer. I found is this whole strain of history, this whole school has been denied by the media. It is a bizarre blindness, because we are such an intelligent country. It's bizarre that we can't get our own history straight.

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  Country, Attitude, War

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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  Thinking, People

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• The past assumes the nature of the present.

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  Past, Assuming

  Source: www.chud.com

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• We are seeing entertainment become politics and we're seeing people acting out in ways that are extremely violent and destabilizing. No rules apply. We're in an era of no rules now, it seems.

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  People, Acting, Way

  "Oliver Stone Talks SAVAGES, the Unconventional Ending, and the Hypothetical Fiction of Cartels". Press conference, collider.com. July 2, 2012.

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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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  War, United States, Calling

  Source: www.pbs.org

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