Oliver Stone Quotes

• 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

• 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

• When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.

  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

• One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose 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

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

  Oliver Stone

• Lunch is for wimps.

  Oliver Stone

• It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.

  Oliver Stone

• In any film there’s always a historical implication.

  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

• 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

• I’m terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

  Oliver Stone

• I’d love to do historical pictures more, but I don’t know if I can.

  Oliver Stone

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Oliver Stone

• 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

• I study history in order to give an interpretation.

  Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone (33)

Birth:	15th September, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Producer, Director, Screenwriter

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