More - Oliver Stone Quotes

Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told President Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.

Oliver Stone

 Country

[T]here's something about movies that always amazes me, their transcendence of time. You can in one second, in one frame, see something that will spark you as divine or genius.

Oliver Stone

 Movie

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.

Oliver Stone

 American Director Consequences

It's a work of collective passion, a serious meditation on what happened, and carries within a compassion that heals.

Oliver Stone

 Compassion

Salvador.

Oliver Stone

 

Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. This painting here. I bought it 10 years ago for 60 thousand dollars. I could sell it today for 600. The illusion has become real and the more real it becomes, the more desperately they want it.

Oliver Stone

 Investments

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

Oliver Stone

 American Director

They make prostitutes of us all.

Oliver Stone

 

Lunch is for wimps.

Oliver Stone

 American Director

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.

Oliver Stone