All David O. Russell Quotes
- 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 ego… Attention
- Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are. Ever Want
- I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write. Duty
- I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me; it's just the most exciting thing for me and my family. You do… Boy
- I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or… Basically Taking
- I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught… Bartender
- That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot… Believe
- The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what… Authenticity
- I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture. Any
- There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got. Actor
- The Fighter was about a family struggling to overcome and fighting each other sometimes, and I went back and rewrote this script which I had… Disorder
- I did a dance sequence in my second short film, which was my best short film, called 'Hairway to the Stars,' and I think Chris… Best
- I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short… Bartender
- I think I land somewhere between Scorsese and Capra in what I'm drawn to emotionally; I'm drawn to very intense emotion. Capra freaked people out… Capra
- I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fighter,' there was this sense that you have… Came
- I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough… Adams
- One of the things I've discovered at my age is I must have enchantment. And that was not clear to me in my earlier years.… Age
- Some of Jimmy Stewart's performance in 'It's A Wonderful Life' is some of the most disturbing performance he ever did, when he falls apart and… Apart
- 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, I… All
- What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food… Age