Oliver Stone

Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.

— Oliver Stone

We should look to (Castro) as one of the Earth's wisest people, one of the people we should consult.

— Oliver Stone

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a…

— 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…

— Oliver Stone

From '45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we're running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.

— Oliver Stone

Every time you go into a movie, you go into the point of view of who it is about.

— Oliver Stone

What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this…

— Oliver Stone

Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers,

— Oliver Stone

[When making movies I] set out to be authentic to [myself] and to put it down the way [I] feel it and…

— Oliver Stone

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit…

— Oliver Stone

Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams…

— Oliver Stone

One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time,…

— Oliver Stone

You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you…

— Oliver Stone

My home in Hollywood is not a home. I do a film here, a film there, as they want it. I don't…

— Oliver Stone

I think John F. Kennedy was the last great hope. And that's why I dwell on that subject. He was someone who…

— Oliver Stone

Cynicism was a school in Greece - the Cynics. Diogenes is a famous Cynic. There was a strong belief in nihilism and…

— Oliver Stone

I can't tell you how many times at the breakfast table my dad would curse out Franklin Roosevelt. I love my father.…

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I've seen my kids' work at school, and I think they're better than when I was young, 'cause I was brainwashed into…

— Oliver Stone

I do have a side as a citizen, and I've always expressed it, and that's where I've gotten into misunderstandings, because some…

— Oliver Stone

I believe in intermissions. I lived through this experience with JFK and Nixon. JFK should have had an intermission. It should have…

— Oliver Stone

I'd like to be honest to my time, and I lived from 1946, and I want to understand why our country, which…

— Oliver Stone

Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of…

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I was trying to find out what happened in my lifetime, because I was an older man. We lived through two terms…

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I suppose in our culture - in our lifetime - we've always enjoyed people who tell it straight. We like our presidents,…

— Oliver Stone

Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel…

— Oliver Stone

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.

— Oliver Stone

I've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.

— Oliver Stone

I've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter. But you…

— Oliver Stone

I'd rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what's happening at the moment.

— Oliver Stone

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

— Oliver Stone

The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in…

— Oliver Stone

There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and…

— Oliver Stone

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

— Oliver Stone

When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, "That's not an Oliver Stone film." But I don't know what…

— Oliver Stone

There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street…

— Oliver Stone

I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

— Oliver Stone

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

— Oliver Stone

We all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has…

— Oliver Stone

“The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping you ass in the chair. (ASS + CHAIR = PAGES!)”

— Oliver Stone

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

— Oliver Stone