Author: Oliver Stone

Quotes

I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can.

I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can.

- Oliver Stone

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

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

- Oliver Stone

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.

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

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

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

- Oliver Stone

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.

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

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

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

- Oliver Stone

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

- Oliver Stone

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

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

- Oliver Stone

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

- Oliver Stone

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