Oliver Stone

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

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.

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

There's an electrical thing about movies.

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

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

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.

I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

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.

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

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.