Oliver Stone Quotes - Page 7

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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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• I do have a side as a citizen, and I've always expressed it, and that's where I've gotten into misunderstandings, because some people see me as a leftist nut or whatever. A conspiracy nut. All that stuff. These are definitions that don't really apply to a dramatist, because a dramatist is working from empathy.

  Oliver Stone

  Nuts, People, Empathy

  Source: www.avclub.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'd rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what's happening at the moment.

  Oliver Stone

  Past, Moments, Tyranny

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.

  Oliver Stone

  Simplicity, Comfortable

  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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• This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.

  Oliver Stone

  America, Bombs, Agendas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has a mind of its own.

  Oliver Stone

  Cancer, Thinking, Healthy

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

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• I'm going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it's hardware and it's important. I don't want to live in a cloud, all my life.

  Oliver Stone

  Thinking, Clouds, Important

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

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• You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain.

  Oliver Stone

  Real, Book, Way

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

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• We should look to (Castro) as one of the Earth's wisest people, one of the people we should consult.

  Oliver Stone

  People, Looks, Earth

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• Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of a détente with the Soviet Union, a new feeling for peace, a seeking out of a new ally with the Soviet Union - the end of the Cold War, as Kennedy called it in his American University speech.

  Oliver Stone

  War, Years, Feelings

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What is this self-love? Where does this come from? It got worse, because after the war we thought we'd won it. That's the first myth. Frankly, Russia won it. The Soviet Union sacrificed far greater form than anyone else to win that war. Secondly, we had the atomic bomb. We should not have dropped it on Japan. We did as an example to the Soviets, not to defeat Japan and to save American lives. These are myths that we explode with a lot of research early on.

  Oliver Stone

  Strong, War, Winning

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you look at the global situation, if America learned to be one of the many countries in the world and to find its way to cooperate with people and bring a global peace that could bring great prosperity to this globe, there is still a chance of that, and that's a big lesson from history. We are not paying attention to that.

  Oliver Stone

  Country, America, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

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• By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population is in jail without having hurt anybody, mostly for drugs.

  Oliver Stone

  Hurt, War, Punishment

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• I wish that George W. Bush had gone to Vietnam, because he would have seen history in a different light. He would've experienced it in a different light because I don't think he understood the nature of war.

  Oliver Stone

  War, Thinking, Light

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I suppose in our culture - in our lifetime - we've always enjoyed people who tell it straight. We like our presidents, our comedians, and our actors to do that . . . It's funny. You say that people prefer a tasteful formalism - as opposed to an oppressive formalism - but I do feel very strongly that form follows function.

  Oliver Stone

  People, Comedian, President

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• writing = ass + chair

  Oliver Stone

  Writing, Ass, Chairs

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• Obama is now fighting for his life. He's fighting for a federal government. I believe in a federal government. I hope it sticks around. We had the American Revolution. There was this whole tension between the federalists and the anti-federalists. Then we had the Civil War. We had Lincoln fighting for it. And the secessionists were there. And we have the same issue today.

  Oliver Stone

  War, Believe, Fighting

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• There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator - greed motivating evolution. But there's a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.

  Oliver Stone

  Greed, Evolution, Humans

  Director's Commentary to the "Wall Street" DVD, 2000.

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• I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.

  Oliver Stone

  Men, Despise

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• What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.

  Oliver Stone

  Venezuela, Done, Poverty

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• [Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.

  Oliver Stone

  Rights, Records, Very Good

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• Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. ... I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.

  Oliver Stone

  Scary, Done, Way

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