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
media mind lazy
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.
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.
christian absurd criticize
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.
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.
teacher past challenges
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.
september best-things happened
Bush was in a shithole on September 10th. 9/11 was the best thing that ever happened to him.
christian spiritual smart
The investigation of consciousness has come to be regarded suspiciously by most smart people and by most scientists. That's a legacy that began with the Inquisition, which considered non-Christian spiritual inquiry as blasphemous.
people easier
It's easier to control people when they're afraid.
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.