Top 33 Quotes by Oliver Stone

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.

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

In any film there's always a historical implication.

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

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

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

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.

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

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.

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.