Oliver Stone

Horses are very difficult to shoot.

— Oliver Stone

I feel like I am what I am.

— Oliver Stone

Lunch is for wimps.

— Oliver Stone

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

— Oliver Stone

writing = ass + chair

— Oliver Stone

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

— Oliver Stone

Greed-for lack of a better word-is good. Greed is right. Greed works.

— Oliver Stone

I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.

— Oliver Stone

I am a storyteller, and I do love ideas.

— Oliver Stone

I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.

— Oliver Stone

I'm more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.

— Oliver Stone

We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.

— Oliver Stone

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

— Oliver Stone

I think you should do rehearsal and work at it, but when the camera rolls, you should be ready. Try to make…

— Oliver Stone

Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is…

— Oliver Stone

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

— Oliver Stone

I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.

— Oliver Stone

We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good…

— Oliver Stone

I think there's a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.

— Oliver Stone

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too,…

— Oliver Stone

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

— Oliver Stone

When I go to the movies, and I have to sit through ten previews of films that look [alike] and tell the…

— Oliver Stone

The beauty of history is that historians have the ability to find patterns, the big picture. When you make a movie, you…

— Oliver Stone

Football is mesmerizing, because it's a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as…

— Oliver Stone

I wish that George W. Bush had gone to Vietnam, because he would have seen history in a different light. He would've…

— Oliver Stone

A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: "He was a man;…

— Oliver Stone

There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator - greed motivating evolution. But there's a huge disconnect between the…

— Oliver Stone

With television, the image has been degenerated, no question. With the internet, commercials... people are much too cynical about image. It's stale.…

— Oliver Stone

My ego is nothing - look what Alexander the Great achieved. And I felt he was a figure outside time, a figure…

— Oliver Stone

I don't agree with Bernie Sanders that the banks should be broken up at this point. But Hillary Clinton's acceptance of huge…

— Oliver Stone

I think any filmmaker will tell you when they wandered from theater to theater to watch their prints, it was disheartening to…

— Oliver Stone

I think you can maintain two tracks. I think you have to. That's what this kind of filmmaking is about. If you're…

— Oliver Stone

After World War II the Republicans - the Wall Street crowd - were very worried about a depression coming back. They hated…

— Oliver Stone

“According to Japanese scholar Yuki Tanaka, the United States firebombed over a hundred Japanese cities. Destruction reached 99.5 percent in the city…

— Oliver Stone

“Prominent among the American capitalists with ties to Nazi counterparts was Prescott Bush, the father of one president and grandfather of another.…

— Oliver Stone

I definitely love history. I'm not formally trained or educated in history, but you could say I did go back to college…

— Oliver Stone

All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules... they probably existed…

— Oliver Stone

I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.

— Oliver Stone

I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.

— Oliver Stone

In digital, you can maintain the quality.

— Oliver Stone