Oliver Stone Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.

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

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

I think our life is a series of adventures.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

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'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.

The past assumes the nature of the present.

I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

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

The first casualty of war is innocence.

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.

We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.

Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.

I feel like I am what I am.

There is this thing about time that you can't see at the time you're at.

We could learn a lot from the ancients, and we should go back there.

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.

Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier and more fun to hear what someone has to say.

I am a storyteller, and I do love ideas.

In digital, you can maintain the quality.

Robert Kagan said the neocons couldn't get a better president than Hillary Clinton, who would enforce the neocon foreign policy. No one's questioned it.