Oliver Stone Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I study history in order to give an interpretation.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Lunch is for wimps.”

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

“In any film there's always a historical implication.”

“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.”