Quotes from 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 look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?

A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: "He was a man; sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but he was a man." I love that line.

I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.

The past assumes the nature of the present.

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.

We are seeing entertainment become politics and we're seeing people acting out in ways that are extremely violent and destabilizing. No rules apply. We're in an era of no rules now, it seems.

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

We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good things happen.

Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

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

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

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

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

Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.

I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.

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

I think our life is a series of adventures.

When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.

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

One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.

Lunch is for wimps.

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.