Oliver Stone Quotes

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

"Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. This painting here. I bought it 10 years ago for 60 thousand dollars. I could sell it today for 600. The illusion has become real and the more real it becomes, the more desperately they want it."
-Oliver Stone

"Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told President Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis."
-Oliver Stone

"Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice."
-Oliver Stone in Cinema quotes.

"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

"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

"They make prostitutes of us all."
-Oliver Stone

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