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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. — Oliver Stone

It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else. — Mary Oliver

The first casualty of war is innocence. — Oliver Stone

I guess we're all lonely in some way. - Oliver Stone — David Baldacci

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. — Oliver Stone

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. — Oliver Stone

Hell is the impossibility of reason. — Oliver Stone

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

In any film there's always a historical implication. — Oliver Stone

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

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

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

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

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone. — Anthony Hopkins

Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive. — Claire Danes

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

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. — Oliver Stone

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

I study history in order to give an interpretation. — Oliver Stone

Independence is a state of mind. Independence is spirit without category. — Oliver Stone

To fail is not tragic. To be human, is. — Oliver Stone

Oliver linked their hands together and smiled all the way from his heart — Laura Stone

Lunch is for wimps. — Oliver Stone

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

Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time. — Ben Barnes

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

There's an electrical thing about movies. — Oliver Stone

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

Then I remember: death comes before the rolling away of the stone. — Mary Oliver

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

I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken. — Oliver Stone

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

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. — Oliver Stone

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

I'm going to die one day. I know it's coming for me, too. I'll be a mountain, I'll be a stone on the beach. I'll be nourishment. — Mary Oliver

I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angeles. — Michael Douglas

I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history. — Oliver Stone

I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see. — Antoine Fuqua

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

With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network. — Jonathan Alter

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish. — Oliver Herford

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

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. — Oliver Stone

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

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. — Oliver Stone

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. — Oliver Stone

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

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

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

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

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. — Oliver Stone

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

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. — Oliver Stone

I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto sax. — Michael Cera

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

The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone. — Lauren Oliver

Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone. — Shia Labeouf

I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire. — Lauren Oliver

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

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

Make a wish," Oliver said, gesturing to the upturned cup, "and turn it clockwise three times. — Danika Stone

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

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