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Oliver Stone Quotes
A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but shell appear in film and it wont work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I dont know. - Oliver Stone Quotes
Anybody whos been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. theyve thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isnt that major. - Oliver Stone Quotes
But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing. - Oliver Stone Quotes
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 Quotes
Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies. - Oliver Stone Quotes
Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe thats what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World. - Oliver Stone Quotes
I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; Im a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history. - Oliver Stone Quotes
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations. - Oliver Stone Quotes
I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed. - Oliver Stone Quotes
I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. Its my responsibility to find the research. Its 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 Quotes
I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history. - Oliver Stone Quotes
I study history in order to give an interpretation. - Oliver Stone Quotes
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 Quotes
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power. - Oliver Stone Quotes
I will come out with my interpretation. If Im wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take. - Oliver Stone Quotes
I would vote for the man whos lived life, whos done different occupations, whos been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So Id vote for experience, honest experience. - Oliver Stone Quotes
Id like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene youd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling. - Oliver Stone Quotes
Id love to do historical pictures more, but I dont know if I can. - Oliver Stone Quotes
Im terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily. - Oliver Stone Quotes
Ive been to war, and its not easy to kill. Its bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious. - Oliver Stone Quotes
Ive met people who will go to a movie that I cant stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. Theres something they like and identified in that movie, and I dont see it. - Oliver Stone Quotes
If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, thats great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions. - Oliver Stone Quotes
In any film theres always a historical implication. - Oliver Stone Quotes
Its interesting that when economic times were the hardest, thats when many people embraced liberalism. - Oliver Stone Quotes
Lunch is for wimps. - Oliver Stone Quotes
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. - Oliver Stone Quotes
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 Quotes
One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that. - Oliver Stone Quotes
Theres an electrical thing about movies. - Oliver Stone Quotes
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 Quotes
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