People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.

There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.

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

What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.

I have skipped from style to style from film to film, and I love doing that because it's given me the ability to free myself from the past. Perhaps one of the worst feelings that I can have is the feeling that I'm locked in, like a prisoner of myself, which is something we all feel at some point in our lives. So part of making those stylistic jumps is just to free myself up-to get away from the old or the old Oliver Stone.