I was trying to find out what happened in my lifetime, because I was an older man. We lived through two terms of George Bush, and I was wondering, "Is he an exception to the rule, or he is a continuation? What is driving all these wars? What is driving this attitude of aggressiveness and militarism?" I got my answer - and it was a shocking answer. I found is this whole strain of history, this whole school has been denied by the media. It is a bizarre blindness, because we are such an intelligent country. It's bizarre that we can't get our own history straight.
There is this thing about time that you can't see at the time you're at. - Oliver Stone
There is this thing about time that you can't see at the time you're at.
- Oliver Stone
I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power. - Oliver Stone
I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
As a dramatist, I don't have politics. - Oliver Stone
As a dramatist, I don't have politics.
I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain valu… - Oliver Stone
I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain valu…
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… - Oliver Stone
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…
When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process. - Oliver Stone
When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now. - Oliver Stone
People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.
A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is … - Oliver Stone
A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is …
One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that. - Oliver Stone
One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
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