Oliver Stone Quotes


Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. Oliver Stone Power 99
I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take. Oliver Stone History 95
The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror. Oliver Stone Fear 85
Lunch is for wimps. Oliver Stone Food 78
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power. Oliver Stone History 73
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 Experience 72
Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies. Oliver Stone Movies 70
There's an electrical thing about movies. Oliver Stone Movies 69
One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that. Oliver Stone Movies 66
I study history in order to give an interpretation. Oliver Stone History 58
But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing. Oliver Stone Nature 57
Hell is the impossibility of reason. Oliver Stone Afterlife 53
I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history. Oliver Stone History 46
I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious. Oliver Stone Politics 38
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 History 38
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 36
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations. Oliver Stone Movies 36
I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily. Oliver Stone Movies 33

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