Quotes by David O. Russell

David O. Russell

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.

Culture

Reality

Years

And if you can come through that and still have some connection to your joy you felt when you were a child that’s a very mature kind of a joy that I find inspiring. And Jennifer Lowrence has all that in her, and I’ve watched her have to go through it even in the last few years.

Children

Joy

Years

And that is also what the movie’s about, going beyond success, what is success ’cause I think success is misperceived as just a cake and it isn’t. There is many things inside that success. There’s a maturity and a heartbreak and sadness and broken glass.

Maturity

Sadness

Thinking

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

Be You

Want

As people, [my parents were] very colorful, very talkative, passionate, they really loved each other. But that also meant heated, it meant there was a lot of drama in the house. Which is good for a filmmaker, I think.

Drama

People

Thinking

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

Best Things

Happened

September

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

Horror

Names

World

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.

Joy

Risk

Running

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.

Energy

Hustle

People

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

Care

Gay

War

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Absurd

Actors

Advice

Age

Answers

Be You

Beautiful

Believe

Best Things

Bipolar

Black And White

Blessed

Boys

Cameras

Care

Careers

Challenges

Character

Children

Christian

Church

Cinema

Class

Comfort

Crafts

Crazy

Criticize

Culture

Cutting

Distance

Doe

Doubt

Drama

Drink

Duty

Easier

Easy

Emotional

Enchantment

Energy

Fall

Fate

Father

Feet

Fighter

Fighting

Filmmaker

Force

Gay

Giving Up

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Quotes by David O. Russell

David O. Russell

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.

And if you can come through that and still have some connection to your joy you felt when you were a child that’s a very mature kind of a joy that I find inspiring. And Jennifer Lowrence has all that in her, and I’ve watched her have to go through it even in the last few years.

And that is also what the movie’s about, going beyond success, what is success ’cause I think success is misperceived as just a cake and it isn’t. There is many things inside that success. There’s a maturity and a heartbreak and sadness and broken glass.

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

As people, [my parents were] very colorful, very talkative, passionate, they really loved each other. But that also meant heated, it meant there was a lot of drama in the house. Which is good for a filmmaker, I think.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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