Latest David O. Russell Quotes from Interviews

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• In order to reinvent yourself, you have to dig deep and look at yourself. I'd lost my way creatively, and I was humbled, and so I think I got really basic about wanting to depict people in the ways that I find them amazing and funny and emotional and that I can relate to and do from an instinctive, gut place. People trying to survive ... That's what all my movies are about.

  David O. Russell

  Emotional, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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, I think I wasn't ... I didn't have my feet on the ground as much, maybe, 10 years ago. So I just feel like this is a good place to be now, to feel that you want to tell stories from this place and that you're excited to tell stories from this place because you know what you love. I know what I love right now.

  David O. Russell

  Humble, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You're not supposed to become something else so you can get more. You're supposed to stay you and get through as yourself, because at least then you can count on that, and you don't have to ask yourself who you are half the time.

  David O. Russell

  Who You Are

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think sometimes you have to handle things delicately at work or at home. You know, you can find yourself in situations that are like opening a closet filled with bowling balls that are going to fall out of it, but if you handle things graciously, then that's not going to happen.

  David O. Russell

  Fall, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  David O. Russell

  People, Hustle, Energy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Lying, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The endings for all my characters seem sufficiently human and messy for me to feel comfortable with them. In some ways they have only moved an inch, but sometimes an inch is a great distance.

  David O. Russell

  Distance, Character, Way

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• Unhappy endings can be as cheap as happy endings.

  David O. Russell

  Unhappy, Happy Endings, Unhappy Endings

  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.

  David O. Russell

  Thinking, Easy, Filmmaker

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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

  David O. Russell

  Names, World, Horror

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• 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.

  David O. Russell

  Thinking, Ideas, Doubt

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• It's absurd that we're so quick to criticize Muslims for being fundamentalist when Christians can be just as extreme and fanatical and frightening.

  David O. Russell

  Christian, Absurd, Criticize

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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

  David O. Russell

  Ideas, May, Great Idea

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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

  David O. Russell

  Religious, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• Quite frankly, the bible is filled with advice that you'd never, want to follow. "Don't cut your hair on a rainy Thursday because locusts will eat your farm" kind of thing.

  David O. Russell

  Cutting, Hair, Advice

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education.

  David O. Russell

  War, Gay, Care

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• 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.

  David O. Russell

  Reality, Years, Culture

  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.

  David O. Russell

  Media, Lazy, Mind

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.

  David O. Russell

  Teacher, Past, Challenges

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• The investigation of consciousness has come to be regarded suspiciously by most smart people and by most scientists. That's a legacy that began with the Inquisition, which considered non-Christian spiritual inquiry as blasphemous.

  David O. Russell

  Christian, Spiritual, Smart

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• 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

  Jesus, Mean, Church

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• 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

  Thinking, Views, Ideas

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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

  David O. Russell

  September, Best Things, Happened

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.

  David O. Russell

  Philosophical, Ideas, People

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.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.

  David O. Russell

  Military, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com