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I'm going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it's hardware and it's important. I don't want to live in a cloud, all my life.

The first casualty of war is innocence.

Let the capitalists do their own fighting and furnish their own corpses and there will never be another war on the face of the earth.

We all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has a mind of its own.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

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.

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.

Prominent among the American capitalists with ties to Nazi counterparts was Prescott Bush, the father of one president and grandfather of another.

[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.

Despite the well-deserved criticism, controlling public opinion became a central element in all future war planning.

To fail is not tragic. To be human, is.

I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.

Lunch is for wimps.

When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, "That's not an Oliver Stone film." But I don't know what to do about that except just move on.

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.

Independence is a state of mind. Independence is spirit without category.

What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.

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

There's an electrical thing about movies.

I don't think most people in the US realize how important WikiLeaks is and why Julian's case needs support.

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 might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.

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

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

Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.

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

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

Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers,

Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse ... I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.

The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping you ass in the chair.
(ASS + CHAIR = PAGES!)

Unfortunately, the truth is that people do go scot-free and it's unfair. A lot of the top drug people who have been arrested are also free.

What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can.

The Nation observed, If you steal $25, you're a thief. If you steal $250,000, you're an embezzler. If you steal $2,500,000, you're a financier.

I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

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

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

We should look to (Castro) as one of the Earth's wisest people, one of the people we should consult.

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