Quotes by Oliver Stone

• Life is a journey, not a destination; enjoy the ride and make the most of every twist and turn.
• One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
• 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.
• 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.
• If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions.
• In any film there's always a historical implication.
• It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
• Lunch is for wimps.
• I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can.
• 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.
• 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.
• There's an electrical thing about movies.
• Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
• 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.
• When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
• You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
• Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
• Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 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 do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
• 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.
• I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
• I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
• I study history in order to give an interpretation.
• 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 think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
• 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 do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
• But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
• Life is a journey, not a destination. Embrace the detours, for they often lead to the most beautiful destinations.
• Life is a journey, not a destination. Embrace the unknown and find beauty in the unexpected.
• Life is a journey, not a destination. Embrace the detours as much as the destination itself.
• Life is a journey, not a destination. Embrace the detours, they may lead you to unexpected adventures.
• Life is a journey, not a destination. Embrace the detours and unexpected paths, for they often lead to the most beautiful destinations.
• Life is a journey, not a destination. Embrace the detours and unexpected turns, for they often lead to the most beautiful destinations.
• Life is a journey, not a destination. Embrace the detours and roadblocks, for they often lead to the most beautiful destinations.
• Life is a journey, not a destination. Embrace the detours, for they may lead you to unexpected and beautiful destinations.
• Life is a journey, not a destination. Enjoy the ride and embrace every twist and turn.
• Life is a journey, not a destination; embrace the detours as they may lead you to unexpected adventures.
• Life is a journey, not a destination. Embrace the detours along the way, for they may lead you to unexpected and beautiful destinations.
• Life is a journey, not a destination. Embrace the detours as much as the destinations.
• Life is a journey, not a destination. Enjoy the ride.
• Life is a journey, not a destination. Embrace every twist and turn along the way.
• Life is a journey, not a destination. Embrace the detours, for they often lead to the greatest adventures.
• Life is a journey, not a destination. Embrace the detours, for they may lead you to unexpected places.
• Life is a journey, not a destination. Embrace the adventure and enjoy the ride.
• Life is a journey, not a destination - embrace the detours, they often lead to the most beautiful destinations.
• Life is a journey, not a destination. Embrace the detours, for they may lead you to unexpected adventures.
• Life is a journey, not a destination. Embrace the detours, for they may lead to unexpected adventures.
• Life is a journey, not a destination. Embrace the detours, they may lead you to unexpected treasures.
• Life is a journey, not a destination. Enjoy the ride and savor every moment along the way.
• Success is not defined by the challenges we face, but by the courage we exhibit in overcoming them.
• Life is like a Pictures — framing is important, but if you grab a handy guide and prosecute your time, it'll turn out pull-the-hood-to-the-main future!
• Fame is like a spider's web—it's all about the quality of the flies you catch.
• Success is like a game of chess; to win, you must study the board, strategize your moves, and, occasionally, sacrifice the gnome in the corner.
• Success is fantastic, but you can’t try and picture millions'-worth ideas with just a bank's focus on interest!