David O. Russell
David O. Russell
David Owen Russellis an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. His early directing career includes the comedy films Spanking the Monkey, Flirting with Disaster, Three Kingsand I ♥ Huckabees...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth20 August 1958
CountryUnited States of America
unhappy happy-endings unhappy-endings
Unhappy endings can be as cheap as happy endings.
thinking easy filmmaker
It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.
thinking ideas doubt
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.
names world horror
Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God's name.
religious thinking ideas
The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.
ideas may great-idea
The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.
jesus mean church
It's not easy to follow Jesus' example, and if you go to church it doesn't mean you're automatically doing it.
thinking honest republican
To be honest, I think that Republicans love terrorism.
children years joy
And if you can come through that and still have some connection to your joy you felt when you were a child that's a very mature kind of a joy that I find inspiring. And Jennifer Lowrence has all that in her, and I've watched her have to go through it even in the last few years.
mistake hard-work trying
You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes.
mean kitchen cinema
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.
drama thinking people
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.
crafts worthwhile hard
Just work on your craft hard - that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.
fate reality often-can
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.