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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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David O. Russell
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 20
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
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Manhattan borough
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September
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I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.
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Unhappy endings can be as cheap as happy endings.
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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'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in 'The Fighter' was a surprise. People saw her as a princess.
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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.
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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.
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If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.
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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.
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Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.
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I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture.
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I think film was my passion without it being declared like a job that I could have, or a career that I could have.
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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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The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.
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I hadn't made that movie before and when I ever met the real Joy Mangano, which happened because De Niro insisted we meet her and her father, that's what she felt like to us. She impressed us with her quiet, serene authority with herself.
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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.
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You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes.
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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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I think I land somewhere between Scorsese and Capra in what I'm drawn to emotionally I'm drawn to very intense emotion. Capra freaked people out when they saw Jimmy Stewart lose it in 'It's a Wonderful Life.
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