I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
You always try to find the right style for the movie. That's the key. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Greed-for lack of a better word-is good. Greed is right. Greed works. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Every time you go into a movie, you go into the point of view of who it is about. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn't like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I can see a movie and believe the story and characterization and stay proud of it. It doesn't change. Even if it's… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Now with digital, we have much better projection, and if the theaters are charging higher prices but providing refreshments and a clean,… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people misunderstand what I'm doing, because my films are not easy sometimes. They do deserve a second… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
When I go to the movies, and I have to sit through ten previews of films that look [alike] and tell the… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time,… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I think any filmmaker will tell you when they wandered from theater to theater to watch their prints, it was disheartening to… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I have skipped from style to style from film to film, and I love doing that because it's given me the ability… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I may have disparaged the idea that people are looking at films on smaller and smaller screens... it's a shame that people… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I think any filmmaker will tell you when they wandered from theater to theater to watch their prints, it was disheartening to… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I love films. I love fiction films, too. I do. I love making them, but it has to be the right one.… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I've tried… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
My protest against digital has been me saying, "What's going to happen to film?" The result is that Kodak is out of… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I believe in intermissions. I lived through this experience with JFK and Nixon. JFK should have had an intermission. It should have… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other religions were… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I've liked different women at different times in my life. I've been attracted to white women. I've been attracted to black women. I've been… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population is in… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Everyone in the world is impacted by the United States' Big Brother attitude toward the world. We need countries to say no to the… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I didn't like my classmates at Yale. George W.Bush was in my class. I didn't know it then. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
There is this thing about time that you can't see at the time you're at. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Obama is now fighting for his life. He's fighting for a federal government. I believe in a federal government. I hope it sticks around.… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
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… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
![“When I go to the movies, and I have to sit through ten previews of films that look [alike] and tell the whole story, you know that we've reached an age of consensus. And consensus is the worst thing for us. We all agree to agree. That's where we lose it as a culture. We have to move away from that.” quote by Oliver Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cc1/oliver-stone-1812_age_when-i-go-to-the-movies-and-i-have-to-si_810722.jpg)
![“[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We weren't right to do that - I don't think he did have that consciousness. But we did it for movie reasons - to create empathy.” quote by Oliver Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/085/oliver-stone-1812_consciousness_nixon-reduced-the-meaning-of-his-life-to_3184838.jpg)
