Oliver Stone Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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

  Beauty, Beautiful, Fusion

• [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

  Thinking, Empathy, Crafts

• But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

  Oliver Stone

  Cutting, Editing, Able

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

  Oliver Stone

  Movie, Great Year, Greed

  "Wall Street". www.imdb.com. 1987.

• 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

  Moving, Stones, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I go to the movies, and I have to sit through ten previews of films that look [alike] and tell the whole story, you know that we've reached an age of consensus. And consensus is the worst thing for us. We all agree to agree. That's where we lose it as a culture. We have to move away from that.

  Oliver Stone

  Moving, Age, Culture

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Oliver Stone

  Missing, Popcorn, Next

• I think a lot of people misunderstand what I'm doing, because my films are not easy sometimes. They do deserve a second viewing. I think they get misunderstood easily.

  Oliver Stone

  Thinking, People, Misunderstood

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

  Taken, Best Effort, Judging

  Source: www.chud.com

• I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.

  Oliver Stone

  Art, Way, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think any filmmaker will tell you when they wandered from theater to theater to watch their prints, it was disheartening to see the poor levels of light and the disrespect for films that existed in certain theater chains. It was always inconsistent.

  Oliver Stone

  Thinking, Disrespect, Film

  Source: film.avclub.com

• In any film there's always a historical implication.

  Oliver Stone

  Historical, Film, Implications

• I think any filmmaker will tell you when they wandered from theater to theater to watch their prints, it was disheartening to see the poor levels of light and the disrespect for films that existed in certain theater chains. It was always inconsistent. And in the lab, too, the photochemical process was very difficult to watch, because sometimes they were shipping prints that you didn't even know were two points off or three points off. We suffered greatly to make these films, and they'd be out-of-focus, with the sound too low.

  Oliver Stone

  Thinking, Light, Two

  Source: www.avclub.com

• My home in Hollywood is not a home. I do a film here, a film there, as they want it. I don't have a relationship. Like, Warner Bros. has a great relationship with Clint Eastwood and takes care of him.

  Oliver Stone

  Home, Care, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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?

  Oliver Stone

  Dna, Profound, Purpose

• I may have disparaged the idea that people are looking at films on smaller and smaller screens... it's a shame that people have to watch DVDs with the lights on in a television-type situation where people are wandering in and out of the room. Movies are different from television, and you cannot watch movies like television. It distorts it.

  Oliver Stone

  Light, Dvds, Ideas

  Source: www.chud.com

• 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.

  Oliver Stone

  Tough, Film, Imagine

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My protest against digital has been me saying, "What's going to happen to film?" The result is that Kodak is out of business. That's a national tragedy. We've got to keep making film.

  Oliver Stone

  Tragedy, Digital, Film

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

• I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise.

  Oliver Stone

  Half, Want, Film

  "Interview: Oliver & Sean Stone (Alexander Revisited)". Interview With Jeremy Smith, trouble.city. September 19, 2007.

• I believe in intermissions. I lived through this experience with JFK and Nixon. JFK should have had an intermission. It should have come right after the Donald Sutherland scene, because then there's just too much information flooding in. You need a break. Same on Nixon. It was a long film, but I couldn't help it, with that kind of subject.

  Oliver Stone

  Believe, Long, Helping

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Iran, Cameras, India

• I love films. I love fiction films, too. I do. I love making them, but it has to be the right one. Hopefully, I'll never become a director for hire. It's horrible to make a film that you're not really interested in.

  Oliver Stone

  Directors, Fiction, Film

  Source: collider.com

• Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I've tried to get the overall in. I think that's more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.

  Oliver Stone

  Moving, Thinking, Two

  "Interview: Oliver & Sean Stone (Alexander Revisited)". Interview With Jeremy Smith, trouble.city. September 19, 2007.

• Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams and the conformists go along with it. There have to be people who are non-conformists.

  Oliver Stone

  Differences, People, Littles

• I have skipped from style to style from film to film, and I love doing that because it's given me the ability to free myself from the past. Perhaps one of the worst feelings that I can have is the feeling that I'm locked in, like a prisoner of myself, which is something we all feel at some point in our lives. So part of making those stylistic jumps is just to free myself up-to get away from the old or the old Oliver Stone.

  Oliver Stone

  Past, Feelings, Style

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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