Oliver Stone Quotes

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
Oliver Stone

Jealousy, Power, Envy

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.
Oliver Stone

Thinking, Through, Thought

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, Work, Beautiful

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, War, Serious

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
Oliver Stone

Nature, Time, Through

I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
Oliver Stone

Movies, Million, Subject

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

Leaders, Along, Lead

I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's 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

Best, Find, Become

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

Time, Experience, Future

I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
Oliver Stone

Life, Family, Experience

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

Life, Means, Worth

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.
Oliver Stone

Home, Movies, Different

Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
Oliver Stone

Fear, Lost, May

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, Trying, Dramatic

I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
Oliver Stone

History, Put, Dramatic

I study history in order to give an interpretation.
Oliver Stone

History, Give, Study

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
Oliver Stone

Power, History, Off

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, Give, Become

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
Oliver Stone

Great, Feeling, Story

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

Love, Pictures, Historical

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
Oliver Stone

Movies, Scared, Terrible

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.
Oliver Stone

Times, Stand, Movie

If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions.
Oliver Stone

Great, Somebody, Questions

In any film there's always a historical implication.
Oliver Stone

Film, Historical

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
Oliver Stone

Times, Economic, Hardest

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Nationality: American

Born: September 15, 1946

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