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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

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David O. Russell
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 20
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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.
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Life just happens the way it's supposed to happen. It delivers you to where it delivers you.
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It's not easy to follow Jesus' example, and if you go to church it doesn't mean you're automatically doing it.
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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.
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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.
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The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.
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If something - if you have a good rapport then you're friends and you're offered projects together or you discover stories together. Jennifer and I discovered this story together, and it was evident to us we would only do it with each other.
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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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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
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Unhappy endings can be as cheap as happy endings.
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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.
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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.
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Bush was in a shithole on September 10th. 9/11 was the best thing that ever happened to him.
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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.
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When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.
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