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If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
I didn't like my classmates at Yale. George W.Bush was in my class. I didn't know it then.
I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.
I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.
We should look to (Castro) as one of the Earth's wisest people, one of the people we should consult.
I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
I think there's a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain.
I don't think most people in the US realize how important WikiLeaks is and why Julian's case needs support.
From '45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we're running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.
I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.
Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
I've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
I'd rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what's happening at the moment.
What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. ... I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.
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.
We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good things happen.
We all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has a mind of its own.
It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn't like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.
I think you should do rehearsal and work at it, but when the camera rolls, you should be ready. Try to make it good the first time.
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.
Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.
Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.
Unfortunately, the truth is that people do go scot-free and it's unfair. A lot of the top drug people who have been arrested are also free.
There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today.
What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
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.
When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, "That's not an Oliver Stone film." But I don't know what to do about that except just move on.
There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.
Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.
I'm going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it's hardware and it's important. I don't want to live in a cloud, all my life.
I've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter. But you learn as you go, I suppose.
Robert Kagan said the neocons couldn't get a better president than Hillary Clinton, who would enforce the neocon foreign policy. No one's questioned it.
Cynicism was a school in Greece - the Cynics. Diogenes is a famous Cynic. There was a strong belief in nihilism and narcissism. Those are old schools too.
Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.
I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans.
I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.