Oliver Stone Quotes

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• The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
• I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
• Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good…
• Football is mesmerizing, because it's a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not…
• 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,…
• Hell is the impossibility of reason.
• I don't think most people in the US realize how important WikiLeaks is and why Julian's case needs support.
• Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams and the conformists…
• Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause more wars and…
• 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 isn't…
• I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
• I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and…
• I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
• Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers,
• In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about…
• Greed-for lack of a better word-is good. Greed is right. Greed works.
• Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
• When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
• I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
• Independence is a state of mind. Independence is spirit without category.

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