David O. Russell

“We're not in infinity, we're in the suburbs.”

— David O. Russell

Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.

— David O. Russell

“This isn't infinity. This is the suburbs.”

— David O. Russell

To be honest, I think that Republicans love terrorism.

— David O. Russell

“You can't handle my infinite nature.”

— David O. Russell

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

— David O. Russell

It's easier to control people when they're afraid.

— David O. Russell

Unhappy endings can be as cheap as happy endings.

— David O. Russell

If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

— David O. Russell

Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God's name.

— David O. Russell

“...and even though I am practicing being kind rather than right, I can't find it in me to confort her right now...”

— David O. Russell

I think film was my passion without it being declared like a job that I could have, or a career that I…

— David O. Russell

The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.

— David O. Russell

Life just happens the way it's supposed to happen. It delivers you to where it delivers you.

— David O. Russell

Bush was in a shithole on September 10th. 9/11 was the best thing that ever happened to him.

— David O. Russell

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.

— David O. Russell

I hadn't made that movie before and when I ever met the real Joy Mangano, which happened because De Niro insisted we…

— David O. Russell

The Republicans just want to bankrupt the government. They think that the government should do nothing, except maybe support the military. So…

— David O. Russell

“Nobody sits like this rock sits. You rock, rock. THe rock just is and sits. You show us how to just sit…

— David O. Russell

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

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating…

— David O. Russell

That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous…

— David O. Russell

I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fighter,' there was this sense…

— David O. Russell

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

And if you can come through that and still have some connection to your joy you felt when you were a child…

— David O. Russell

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

You know when you're hungry and excited and you feel humble about it? I like that. In the past, when things were…

— David O. Russell

I think sometimes you have to handle things delicately at work or at home. You know, you can find yourself in situations…

— David O. Russell

When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes from a…

— David O. Russell

You know, you have Scorsese who worked with De Niro and - or DiCaprio. You have William Wyler who worked with Bette…

— David O. Russell

I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, 'Does this suck?' and…

— David O. Russell

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

“I'm not ok. Don't tell anyone.”

— David O. Russell

The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.

— David O. Russell

It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.

— David O. Russell

It's not easy to follow Jesus' example, and if you go to church it doesn't mean you're automatically doing it.

— David O. Russell

“Yeah, I say. Haven't you ever noticed that life is like a series of movies?”

— David O. Russell

You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes.

— David O. Russell

The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.

— David O. Russell

I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.

— David O. Russell