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Oliver Stone Quotes |
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Type: Director Quotes Category: American Director Quotes Date of Birth: September 15, 1946 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Oliver Stone Related Authors: Woody Allen Quentin Tarantino Spike Lee John Hughes Francis Ford Coppola Steven Spielberg Stanley Kubrick George Lucas Tim Burton |
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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.
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Oliver Stone 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 In any film there's always a historical implication. Oliver Stone It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism. Oliver Stone Lunch is for wimps. Oliver Stone Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. Oliver Stone One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia. Oliver Stone One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that. Oliver Stone There's an electrical thing about movies. Oliver Stone Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize. Oliver Stone 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. Oliver Stone When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process. Oliver Stone You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that's great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we'll see. Oliver Stone 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. Oliver Stone |
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