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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power. (Oliver Stone)
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations. View quote
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There's an electrical thing about movies. View quote
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I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I wanted to explore the new Wall Street. When I was writing Scarface in Miami, there was so much coke around and so many lunatics, and I met so many kids from Wall Street who were millionaires. I thought older men were rich, but here were these kids, 25 or 28 or 35 years old, with millions of dollars playing the markets all over the world around the clock. My father would have been shocked by the new electronics that allowed it.... Dad was a stockbroker on Wall Street when there was more integrity and class. View quote
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I leave Bud Fox in the canyons of Wall Street, just another ant, one of millions of ants.... We're all absorbed in this system of capitalism.... You join the collective unconscious. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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In any film there's always a historical implication. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily. View quote
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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. View quote
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Lunch is for wimps. (Oliver Stone)
The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror. View quote
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Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice. View quote
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Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies. View quote
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Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. This painting here. I bought it 10 years ago for 60 thousand dollars. I could sell it today for 600. The illusion has become real and the more real it becomes, the more desperately they want it. View quote
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