Oliver Stone Quotes on Movies (14 Quotes)


    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.

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

    In any film there's always a historical implication.

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

    Film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing. Montage can create a three-dimensional space, a three-dimensional aura, great sensuality. There's an electrical thing about movies.


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

    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 field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

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

    Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.


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

    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've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.

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


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