I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now,… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
The cinema that I make is a cinema about people, emotion, humanity and passion. It's not just about what they struggle through,… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
The investigation of consciousness has come to be regarded suspiciously by most smart people and by most scientists. That's a legacy that… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
You know, you have Scorsese who worked with De Niro and - or DiCaprio. You have William Wyler who worked with Bette… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
Every day, when my feet hit the ground, I have a story that I'm telling myself that I choose to make a… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
The romance is essential. I love the love. I don't love just people struggling. I love what people are struggling for. That… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
As people, [my parents were] very colorful, very talkative, passionate, they really loved each other. But that also meant heated, it meant… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
I think I land somewhere between Scorsese and Capra in what I'm drawn to emotionally; I'm drawn to very intense emotion. Capra… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
I think Jennifer Lawrence is that inside of herself. As long as I've known her she's been both 10 years old and… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
In order to reinvent yourself, you have to dig deep and look at yourself. I'd lost my way creatively, and I was… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
The Fighter was about a family struggling to overcome and fighting each other sometimes, and I went back and rewrote this script which I… — David O. Russell Copy Share
I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk… — David O. Russell Copy Share
Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God's name. — David O. Russell Copy Share
I think that everybody does hustle in order to survive. That doesn't mean lying - it's more about how you handle situations. — David O. Russell Copy Share
There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got. — David O. Russell Copy Share
Life just happens the way it's supposed to happen. It delivers you to where it delivers you. — David O. Russell Copy Share
I did a dance sequence in my second short film, which was my best short film, called 'Hairway to the Stars,' and I think… — David O. Russell Copy Share
It's a closing of the mind that happens when you want to be lazy and go with the easiest answers, like the media do… — David O. Russell Copy Share
You know when you're hungry and excited and you feel humble about it? I like that. In the past, when things were not clear,… — David O. Russell Copy Share
That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your… — David O. Russell Copy Share
The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing,… — David O. Russell Copy Share
The romance is essential. I love the love. I don't love just people struggling. I love what people are struggling for. That moves me.… — David O. Russell Copy Share
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