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
want be-you
Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.
jobs class office
I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films.
years age enchantment
One of the things I've discovered at my age is I must have enchantment. And that was not clear to me in my earlier years. When I look at my favorite films, the Frank Capra - even Scorsese, even 'Goodfellas,' what makes that movie so remarkable is there's enchantment in their world.
jobs writing class
I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.
song thinking intense-moments
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.
unhappy happy-endings unhappy-endings
Unhappy endings can be as cheap as happy endings.
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.
mistake hard-work trying
You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes.
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.