Quotes by Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone

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

Records

Rights

Very Good

[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We weren’t right to do that – I don’t think he did have that consciousness. But we did it for movie reasons – to create empathy.

Crafts

Empathy

Thinking

[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.

Keys

Sometimes

Way

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.

Lines

Men

Sometimes

A lot of the good cameraman who we used are doing television work; they’re doing commercials for a lot of money. And the commercials look incredible. But what’s it about? I made three major commercial campaigns. I enjoyed it, I experimented with it, and at the end of the day I felt no satisfaction. It was like having a fast food lunch.

Lunch

The End Of The Day

Three

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.

Beautiful

Beauty

Fusion

After World War II the Republicans – the Wall Street crowd – were very worried about a depression coming back. They hated Franklin Roosevelt in that crowd, my father among them. And there was a great fear in ’46 that we’d fall back into the pits. And they always wanted to break up the Roosevelt legislation.

Father

Wall

War

All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules… they probably existed in some form. But they all went east. That’s where a Greek went to make his bones so to speak. And Alexander the Great was the first man who actually went east not to plunder, not to loot and come back to Greece – which is where the Macedonians wanted to go back with the money. He stayed. And he became half-Eastern.

Greek

Hero

Men

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.

Ability

Equal

Military

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.

Divorce

Insightful

Thinking

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Able

Acceptance

Acting

Actors

Adventure

Age

Agendas

Ambitious

America

American Politics

Animal

Army

Art

Ass

Assuming

Attitude

Baseball

Beautiful

Beauty

Believe

Best Effort

Best Job

Big Picture

Bombs

Book

Boring

Boyfriend

Breaths

Broken

Brother

California

Calling

Calm

Cameras

Campaigns

Cancer

Care

Chairs

Challenges

Changed

Character

Children

Choices

Christian

Christianity

Cinema

Citizens

Classmates

Clean

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Quotes by Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone

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

[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We weren’t right to do that – I don’t think he did have that consciousness. But we did it for movie reasons – to create empathy.

[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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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