Quotes from Oliver Stone

I'm going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it's hardware and it's important. I don't want to live in a cloud, all my life.

There's an electrical thing about movies.

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.

But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.

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

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.

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 see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.

What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.

I think you should do rehearsal and work at it, but when the camera rolls, you should be ready. Try to make it good the first time.

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

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

You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that's great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we'll see.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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's an electrical thing about movies.