#om

We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese. ↗

— Matt Stone

#else #everybody #everybody else #interested #martin

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 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

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 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. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#conservatism #experience #explore #future #hold

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. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#i #identified #like #met #movie

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. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#asked #debate #excited #get #great

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#economic times #embraced #hardest #interesting #liberalism

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. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#beyond #enough #great #hard #job