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 More Quotes by David O. Russell More Quotes From David O. Russell It's easier to control people when they're afraid. David O. Russell easierpeople 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 lazymediamind 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 cuttinghairadvice You can't force a movie to happen. Movies happen when they're supposed to happen. Everything happens in God's time. I really believe that. David O. Russell forcehappensbelieve You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes. David O. Russell hard-workmistaketrying The holy trifecta of directing and filmmaking is character emotion, camera movement and music. When you hit those three, that's magical. That's what I'm trying to do. David O. Russell camerastryingcharacter Life just happens the way it's supposed to happen. It delivers you to where it delivers you. David O. Russell happensway 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. David O. Russell dramapeoplethinking If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile. David O. Russell worthwhilehardcrafts I think film was my passion without it being declared like a job that I could have, or a career that I could have. David O. Russell passionjobsthinking The romance is essential. I love the love. I don't love just people struggling. I love what people are struggling for. That moves me. I love watching people be loving, and I find it enchanting, magical and transporting. It's one of the reasons that I go to the movies, and that's why I like putting it in movies. David O. Russell strugglepeoplemoving 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. David O. Russell realtryingmight I make every movie and every scene like it could be my last. That's the only way I know how to make cinema that stands on its feet. I have to treat it like that. It has to be life and death stakes. David O. Russell life-and-deathcinemafeet What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity. David O. Russell often-canfatereality There's nothing better than having a collaborator that you have a great shorthand with and a great comfort with who's shepherding the project along. I mean, that's the best thing that can happen in cinema where there's many cooks in the kitchen. David O. Russell kitchencomfortmean 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 reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction. That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. David O. Russell youtimebeautifulpeople I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, 'Does this suck?' and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, 'I'm on fire, I'm amazing!' and I don't think that's the way to work. David O. Russell bestgoodyouwork
