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David O. Russell

David Owen Russell (born August 20, 1958) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. His early directing career includes the comedy films Spanking the Monkey (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Three Kings (1999), and I ♥ Huckabees (2004).

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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.

Song, Thinking, Intense Moments, Moments, Creating, Taking

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.

Camera, Cameras, Character, Magical, Trifecta, Trying

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.

Assume, Doubt, Ideas, Prefer, Thinking

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, Stake, Years

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. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.

Jobs, Writing, Class, Guy, Day, Personal

The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.

Real, Writing, People, Trick, Consciously

To be honest, I think that Republicans love terrorism.

Honest, Republican, Republicans, Terrorism, Think, Thinking

There's always hope. Never give up. Walk slowly and drink lots of water. It ain't a sprint.

Giving Up, Water, Drink, Give, Hope

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

Idea, Ideas, Make, Religious, Thinking

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.

Comfort, Kitchen, Mean, Project, Thing

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.

Struggle, Moving, People, Romance, Reasons, Essential

That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.

Believe, Fight, Fighting, People, Reaction, Time

The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.

Character, Emotional, People, Stay, Wrong

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

10Th, Best Things, Happened, September, Thing

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.

Bartender, Class, Jobs, Make, Office

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

Hard Work, Learn, Mistake, Mistakes, Trying, Work

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.

Thinking, Looks, Ridiculous, Think, Funny, Tragic

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

Closes, Curiosity, Exchange, Ideas, Thinking, Views

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.

Bankrupt, Except, Government, Military, Thinking

I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fighter,' there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.

Careers, Fighter, Instinct, Gut, Hedge, Filmmaking

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