Oliver Stone Quotes

In digital, you can maintain the quality.

Robert Kagan said the neocons couldn't get a better president than Hillary Clinton, who would enforce the neocon foreign policy. No one's questioned it.

Anyone can relate to suffering in this world.

We have enormous challenges in front of us.

I'm trying to understand my life. The one that I've experienced.

Cynicism was a school in Greece - the Cynics. Diogenes is a famous Cynic. There was a strong belief in nihilism and narcissism. Those are old schools too.

America is the strongest empire ever, with the largest military. We spend ten times what the Russians do. And they have equal nuclear ability as we do, because they're precise.

In any film there's always a historical implication.

I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.

What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.

Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.

[When making movies I] set out to be authentic to [myself] and to put it down the way [I] feel it and know it and interpret it. And then others sometimes key into it and get it.

Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.

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

I feel like I am what I am.

I didn't like my classmates at Yale. George W.Bush was in my class. I didn't know it then.

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.