Oliver Stone
Conspiracy chronicler of JFK, Stone's polemics sparked quotable political debates.
Most quoted
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind."
— from Wall Street (film), 1987
"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."
— from Platoon (film), 1986
"The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses."
— from Natural Born Killers (film), 1994
All quotes by Oliver Stone (100)
Editing is where the film is made.
The American dream is alive, but it's mutated.
Conspiracy theories? Sometimes they're just facts waiting to be uncovered.
Directors must have vision, or they're lost.
The Cold War was a time of paranoia and power plays.
I film what I feel passionately about.
Salvador showed the horrors of civil war.
Truth is stranger than fiction, especially in politics.
Any Given Sunday is about teamwork and life's battles.
The establishment fears real journalism.
My films are my letters to the world.
Reaganomics was trickle-down failure.
Storytelling is the essence of humanity.
I survived Vietnam; it changed me forever.
Natural Born Killers critiques media sensationalism.
Presidents are puppets in many ways.
Filmmaking is a collaborative madness.
The world needs more whistleblowers.
Life's a battlefield; choose your fights wisely.
I direct with my gut, edit with my brain.
Contemporaries of Oliver Stone
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