Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stoneis an American film director, screenwriter, and producer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 September 1946
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
storyteller
I am a storyteller, and I do love ideas.
integrity people honor
Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.
interview spanish television
I am here to interview Fidel for Spanish television,
praying destruction
We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
adventure home men
I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?
simplicity
I'm more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
ego honor
My ego is nothing - look what Alexander the Great achieved. And I felt he was a figure outside time, a figure we don't even understand, because he's frankly pre-Christian, and his concepts of honor go back to Homer.
i-am-what-i-am
I feel like I am what I am.
directors looks process
When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
jealousy envy underestimate
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
weed marijuana differences
I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.
sweat worst-nightmares 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.
tragedy digital film
My protest against digital has been me saying, "What's going to happen to film?" The result is that Kodak is out of business. That's a national tragedy. We've got to keep making film.
tough-economic-times interesting people
It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.