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Oliver Stone

11 quotes

Sometimes a single quote is enough to make a name memorable. Oliver Stone has given us several. The range of their thinking — from Movies to Experience — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. Our collection holds 15 quotes from Oliver Stone, each offering a different angle on Movies, Experience, Work, War, and Power. Readers often gravitate to this one: "I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations."

“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 some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.”

— Oliver Stone

Beauty

All Quotes by Oliver Stone

“I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.”

— Oliver Stone

Movies

“There's an electrical thing about movies.”

— Oliver Stone

Movies

“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

Politics

“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 some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.”

— Oliver Stone

Beauty

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

— Oliver Stone

Movies

“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 values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.”

— Oliver Stone

Experience

“One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.”

— Oliver Stone

Movies

“I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.”

— Oliver Stone

Experience

“Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.”

— Oliver Stone

Jealousy

“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

Fear

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

— Oliver Stone

Movies