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  • Every day, when my feet hit the ground, I have a story that I'm telling myself that I choose to make a positive story. I know people who don't do that, and there's a heavy energy around them. So I guess there's that kind of hustling.

    People  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

    Source: collider.com
  • You know, you have Scorsese who worked with De Niro and - or DiCaprio. You have William Wyler who worked with Bette Davis. You have George Cukor who worked with Katharine Hepburn. I just - people get to be friends and then there's a - that's a - you can take risks together and each time out you take a different risk.

    People   Risk   Together  
    "How Director David O. Russell Discovered 'Joy'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.
  • 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 woman in 'The Fighter' was a surprise. People saw her as a princess.

    People  
    "Writer-director David O. Russell". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. February 08, 2013.
  • I think audiences deserve the benefit of the doubt. I prefer to be surprised by them rather then just assume they'll react negatively to any new idea.

    Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
  • 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 written for my son initially because my son has mood disorder.

    "Writer-director David O. Russell". "The Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. February 8, 2013.
  • To be honest, I think that Republicans love terrorism.

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

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  • A thousand years ago, scientists who wondered about consciousness and the nature of reality were burned at the stake. We still haven't recovered from that and it's left us with a culture that no longer investigates consciousness, except on the fringes.

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  • 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 when he breaks down.

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

    People  
    Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
  • There's always hope. Never give up. Walk slowly and drink lots of water. It ain't a sprint.

    Source: collider.com
  • I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture.

    "Writer-director David O. Russell". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 8, 2013.
  • I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.

    Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
  • 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 all the time in their sound bytes.

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  • When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes from a deeper place. The same thing happens when the actors go, take after take, and just get lost in it. When you're in a house, you don't think about being in the house; you're just there.

    "David O. Russell is back in the neighbourhood" by Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2012.
  • That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous and funny. That's part of being human.

    Source: collider.com
  • 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 once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • David O. Russell's best films are thrilling high wire acts that run the moment to moment risk of tumbling to the ground. In his latest, "Joy," Russell has more trouble than usual keeping his balance on the wire.

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

    Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
  • You should always make it like it's your last film. That's my personal belief. Every filmmaker is going to have another belief... That's the only way I know to try to make a film that might be good. You got to take it real seriously like it's your last thing.

    Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
  • The Republicans just want to bankrupt the government. They think that the government should do nothing, except maybe support the military. So terrorism is perfect for them.

    Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
  • 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 a narrative out of it.

  • 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 the good hard work, and the rest of it is something you shouldn't get too caught up in, but when it happens - boy! I respect it.

    "The fighter: David O. Russell Interview". Interview with Tom Butler, www.ign.com. February 8, 2011.
  • The great lesson about filmmaking is never take "no" for an answer, especially if you have a lot of passion and inspiration to do something.

    Source: collider.com
  • The cinema that I make is a cinema about people, emotion, humanity and passion. It's not just about what they struggle through, but what they live for. That's what I love. The music they love, the people they love, the clothing, the hair and the life that they love

    Source: collider.com
  • You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a head injury, their families have a handful when they come home.

    "Writer-director David O. Russell". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. February 08, 2013.
  • 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 a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films.

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

    Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
  • 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 we like. We have our crazy little rituals. And we have each other.

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