You get much more heat when you do something current. Oliver Stone More Quotes by Oliver Stone More Quotes From Oliver Stone I think our life is a series of adventures. Oliver Stone life-isadventurethinking I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it. Oliver Stone looksway 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, becoming a beast. Oliver Stone marijuanaweeddifferences Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice. Oliver Stone independentcinemachoices JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular. Oliver Stone united-statescallingwar The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror. Oliver Stone worst-nightmaresvietnamsweat We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath. Oliver Stone breathsmindknows I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken. Oliver Stone takenpositivemight I can't tell you how many times at the breakfast table my dad would curse out Franklin Roosevelt. I love my father. He was an intelligent man, but he really didn't like regulations of the Roosevelt style, or the taxes. He was an Dwight Eisenhower man. And that's what Eisenhower did, committed to breaking down the program. Oliver Stone dadintelligentfather 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 the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity - and it was an atrocity. Oliver Stone regrethard-worksorry But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy. Oliver Stone guymeanthinking Bernie Sanders is a disappointment on foreign policy, totally doesn't think about it. But he has the possibility to be more isolationist, which would be good for us actually. We manage to kill several million people on this planet without taking any credit for it or blame. It's a heavy karma we have. Oliver Stone karmadisappointmentthinking After World War II the Republicans - the Wall Street crowd - were very worried about a depression coming back. They hated Franklin Roosevelt in that crowd, my father among them. And there was a great fear in '46 that we'd fall back into the pits. And they always wanted to break up the Roosevelt legislation. Oliver Stone wallwarfather The beauty of history is that historians have the ability to find patterns, the big picture. When you make a movie, you try to find that. I'm doing in the cinema what historians try to do in their own media. Oliver Stone big-pictureabilitytrying I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn. Oliver Stone popcornnextmissing You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it's read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter. Oliver Stone best-efforttakenjudging Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing. Oliver Stone ideologicalsecurity I may have disparaged the idea that people are looking at films on smaller and smaller screens... it's a shame that people have to watch DVDs with the lights on in a television-type situation where people are wandering in and out of the room. Movies are different from television, and you cannot watch movies like television. It distorts it. Oliver Stone dvdslightideas I think you can maintain two tracks. I think you have to. That's what this kind of filmmaking is about. If you're not aware of the limitations of what you're up against... it's like a general: you have to know your artillery and you have to know your infantry. You have to know what you have. You have to marshal your forces and use them well. It comes down to the personal and the intimate, but at the same time you have to have the big picture. Oliver Stone tracktwothinking I've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter. Oliver Stone not-surestylechanged
