Oliver Stone

Hell is the impossibility of reason. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#evil #frustration #inquisitive #afterlife

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#been #bloody #consequences #easy #horrifying

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#does #dramatic #dramatist #historian #history

I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#along #believe #come #exist #existed

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

— Oliver Stone

#been #before #coming #coming home #deer

Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#connects #fear #giant #lizard #lost

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

— Oliver Stone

#because #being #cut #distinctive #editing

I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations. ↗

— Oliver Stone

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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#history #i #never #out #put

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 that major. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#been #between #divorce #doing #line