Oliver Stone Quotes - Page 4

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• I'd like to be honest to my time, and I lived from 1946, and I want to understand why our country, which I love so much, and was a great country when I was young, it seemed, became this monster vampire on the face of humanity- a vampire squid, to quote Matt Taibbi, sucking out the juices of all mankind. Why? It's a basic question.

  Oliver Stone

  Country, Squids, Humanity

  Source: collider.com

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• Bernie Sanders is a disappointment on foreign policy, totally doesn't think about it. But he has the possibility to be more isolationist, which would be good for us actually. We manage to kill several million people on this planet without taking any credit for it or blame. It's a heavy karma we have.

  Oliver Stone

  Karma, Disappointment, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Oliver Stone

  Style, Changed, Not Sure

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.

  Oliver Stone

  Book, Order, Shapes

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• What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.

  Oliver Stone

  Believe, Understanding, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

  Oliver Stone

  Trying, Doe, Dramatic

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• Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.

  Oliver Stone

  Government, People, Sore Losers

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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.

  Oliver Stone

  Country, Oil, President

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• Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause more wars and more death and more destruction to the soul and to human life than anything else.

  Oliver Stone

  War, Two, Evil

  Oliver Stone, Charles L. P. Silet (2001). “Oliver Stone: Interviews”, p.65, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• [When making movies I] set out to be authentic to [myself] and to put it down the way [I] feel it and know it and interpret it. And then others sometimes key into it and get it.

  Oliver Stone

  Keys, Way, Sometimes

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• 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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• I've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter. But you learn as you go, I suppose.

  Oliver Stone

  Style, Matter, I've Changed

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love the act of writing. I like the quiet, internal aspect of it. If I lost track of that, I couldn't direct the same way. I couldn't be a director for-hire; it's just not my nature.

  Oliver Stone

  Writing, Track, Directors

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

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• 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

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• Unfortunately, the truth is that people do go scot-free and it's unfair. A lot of the top drug people who have been arrested are also free.

  Oliver Stone

  People, Drug, Truth Is

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

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• With television, the image has been degenerated, no question. With the internet, commercials... people are much too cynical about image. It's stale. And all over the world, not just America.

  Oliver Stone

  America, People, Cynical

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

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• My ego is nothing - look what Alexander the Great achieved. And I felt he was a figure outside time, a figure we don't even understand, because he's frankly pre-Christian, and his concepts of honor go back to Homer.

  Oliver Stone

  Christian, Ego, Honor

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

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• You always try to find the right style for the movie. That's the key.

  Oliver Stone

  Keys, Style, Trying

  Source: www.chud.com

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• All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules... they probably existed in some form. But they all went east. That's where a Greek went to make his bones so to speak. And Alexander the Great was the first man who actually went east not to plunder, not to loot and come back to Greece - which is where the Macedonians wanted to go back with the money. He stayed. And he became half-Eastern.

  Oliver Stone

  Hero, Men, Greek

  Source: www.chud.com

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• 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.

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• I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.

  Oliver Stone

  Persons

  Source: www.chud.com

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• The U.S. ultimately decides what the national security threat is. They put Russia one, Iran two, China three - the terrorists are down the list. But it's amazing to me that we can still consider Russia a threat. On the contrary, they've been very helpful in the Middle East, trying to calm the situation and respect the rights of sovereign countries to exist. It's the U.S. that hasn't - whether in Serbia, the old Yugoslavia, in Africa, and now, Iraq.

  Oliver Stone

  Country, Trying, Calm

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every time you go into a movie, you go into the point of view of who it is about.

  Oliver Stone

  Views, Point Of View

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

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