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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.

~David O. Russell

Topics: Basically Cinema Compelling Creating Experience Fiction Intense Makes Moments Most Narrative Out Song Taking Think You I Think

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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

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There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.

~David O. Russell

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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.

~David O. Russell

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Some of Jimmy Stewart's performance in 'It's A Wonderful Life' is some of the most disturbing performance he ever did, when he falls apart and when he breaks down.

~David O. Russell

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'The Fighter' was about a family struggling to overcome and fighting each other sometimes, and I went back and rewrote this script which I had written for my son initially because my son has mood disorder.

~David O. Russell

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I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture.

~David O. Russell

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You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a head injury, their families have a handful when they come home.

~David O. Russell

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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.

~David O. Russell

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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.'

~David O. Russell

Topics: Between Drawn Emotion Emotionally Freaked Intense Jimmy Land Life Lose Out People Saw Scorsese Somewhere Think Very Wonderful Wonderful Life I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: August 20th, 1958

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