Oliver Stone Quotes - Page 5

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• A lot of the good cameraman who we used are doing television work; they're doing commercials for a lot of money. And the commercials look incredible. But what's it about? I made three major commercial campaigns. I enjoyed it, I experimented with it, and at the end of the day I felt no satisfaction. It was like having a fast food lunch.

  Oliver Stone

  Lunch, The End Of The Day, Three

  Source: www.chud.com

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• I've seen my kids' work at school, and I think they're better than when I was young, 'cause I was brainwashed into anti-Communism. This is a much more interesting view of history than I've ever seen, and I hope to God it works. It's classic history, classically told. No talking heads. Just pure archival footage and a storyline.

  Oliver Stone

  School, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It's a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it's hard to know what's going on unless you really follow it.

  Oliver Stone

  Real, Lying, Concern

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People will go to clean theaters; they don't like to go to dirty theaters.

  Oliver Stone

  Dirty, People, Clean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.

  Oliver Stone

  Greek, Christianity, Concepts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Just because we live in a Christian era doesn't mean we're all Christian, necessarily.

  Oliver Stone

  Christian, Mean, Eras

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I guess you could say Alexander the Great was a man who completely transported me and moved me and inspired me because of his idealism, and I'd go back to the Greeks, and I always liked Homer and all the philosophers and their way of thinking and their concept of honor. I think their concept of honor does apply to the modern age, and certain people that walk around are pre-Christian.

  Oliver Stone

  Christian, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People should really horde their Blu-rays like old comic books and baseball cards. Because they're really beautiful, and will be worth something if you like movies as I do.

  Oliver Stone

  Beautiful, Baseball, Book

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Horses are very difficult to shoot.

  Oliver Stone

  Horse, Difficult

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.

  Oliver Stone

  Trying, Doe, Narrative

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?

  Oliver Stone

  Home, Adventure, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today.

  Oliver Stone

  Believe, Narrative, Today

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us.

  Oliver Stone

  Greek, Playwright

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.

  Oliver Stone

  Television, Way, Film

  Source: www.chud.com

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• 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

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• 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

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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.

  Oliver Stone

  Home, Sunday, Heaven

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.

  Oliver Stone

  Thinking, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: "He was a man; sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but he was a man." I love that line.

  Oliver Stone

  Men, Lines, Sometimes

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.

  Oliver Stone

  Interviews, Mona Lisa, American Politics

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Nixon identified himself as a crisis-laden man. He'd reach levels of victory and then he'd plunge into defeat. He was vice president, then he lost to Kennedy, then he lost the California governorship. Then came a great comeback and then he blew it again - and the next comeback, after he lost the presidency. He was a man who needed the feeling of walking the precipice.

  Oliver Stone

  Men, California, Feelings

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I think you should do rehearsal and work at it, but when the camera rolls, you should be ready. Try to make it good the first time.

  Oliver Stone

  Thinking, Trying, Cameras

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

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• 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.

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• 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 Stone

  Style, Different, Stories

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

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• 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

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