A biography for Oliver Stonehasn’t been written yet.
“When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.”
“I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.”
“Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.”
“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.”
“Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.”
“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.”
“It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.”
“I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.”
“Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.”
“I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.”
“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 study history in order to give an interpretation.”
“But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.”
“I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.”