Quotes by Oliver Stone

“Hell is the impossibility of reason.”

“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 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 study history in order to give an interpretation.”

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

“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 ...”

“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.”

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

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

“There's an electrical thing about movies.”

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

“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 ...”

“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.”

“There was a civil war in this country... Kennedy provoked such hostility and hatred. His death was cheered in the South because of his support for Martin Luther King. He was moving to change things...”

“Since that day, the media has chanted the mantra that Oswald did it alone. But the American public... has never accepted it. They smell a rat.”

“My father was a Republican and he hated Roosevelt. And that's sort of been the battle of my life, I think. You have to understand I grew up a Republican conservative. I hated Castro. And I put my m...”

“[In comparison with the Vietnam war] It's the same story in Afghanistan, Iraq and South America. It's white people meeting people who they think they are better than. And I feel that this war is th...”

“We have an obligation to those who died ... to remember”

“A sad occasion in that Julian could not follow me out the door. He lives in a tiny room with great modesty and discipline.”

“Strong mind, no sun, friends who visit, work to be done, one documentary coming out from Alex Gibney that is not expected to be kind.”