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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. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#beautiful #beauty #call #field #film

I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#enough #good #good life #i #life

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

— Oliver Stone

#because #being #cut #distinctive #editing

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. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#along #believe #come #exist #existed

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

— Oliver Stone

#been #before #coming #coming home #deer

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. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#connects #fear #giant #lizard #lost

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. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#does #dramatic #dramatist #historian #history

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

— Oliver Stone

#i #i do #interpretations #million #movies

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. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#best #certain #certain point #digest #dramatist

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

— Oliver Stone

#history #i #never #out #put