H.P. Oliver Quotes

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

For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.

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

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

Horses are very difficult to shoot.

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.

I can see a movie and believe the story and characterization and stay proud of it. It doesn't change. Even if it's unappreciated, that doesn't mean it can't be appreciated in the future.

We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good things happen.

We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.

I think John F. Kennedy was the last great hope. And that's why I dwell on that subject. He was someone who could stand up to the militarist element in our society.

Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.

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.

Each actor requires a different language.

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.

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

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.

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

From '45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we're running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.

I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise.

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

I am a storyteller, and I do love ideas.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.

Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.

I think a lot of people misunderstand what I'm doing, because my films are not easy sometimes. They do deserve a second viewing. I think they get misunderstood easily.

I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.

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

As a dramatist, I don't have politics.

You get much more heat when you do something current.

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

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

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.

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.

I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.

I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can.

When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.

The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.

I don't think most people in the US realize how important WikiLeaks is and why Julian's case needs support.

Independence is a state of mind. Independence is spirit without category.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.