David O. Russell Quotes

The cinema that I make is a cinema about people, emotion, humanity and passion. It's not just about what they struggle through, but what they live for. That's what I love. The music they love, the people they love, the clothing, the hair and the life that they love

David O. Russell

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• Life
• Music
• Live
• Passion
• Hair
• Humanity
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• I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Business
  • Nothing

• Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Careless

• What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • People
  • Up
  • Ideas

• I would hope there would be a greater appreciation by casual sports fans of the incredible skill and passion of our players.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Hope
  • Passion
  • Sports

• Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • People
  • Music
  • Live

• Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Something
  • Feminism

• Life is about timing.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Life
  • Sports
  • Timing

• Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • American
  • Funny

• I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Bad
  • Me

• Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Passion

• I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Family
  • Success

• I love playing in Germany. I love playing anywhere where people are going to enjoy the music. Germany is especially nice to play.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• I don't think I care about the hair as much as people think I do. It's just kind of there. It's not really a big deal to me. It actually drives me nuts. It's always in my face if I don't have a hat on. I might have to get rid of it.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • People
  • Hair
  • Hat

• People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • People
  • Changes
  • Detail

• When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Enjoy

• Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Humanity

• I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Taken
  • Leadership
  • President

• Their teeth white, as if they never used teeth for anything except to smile.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Smile

• I can feel your body pressed against my body. When you start to poundin', love to feel you throbbin'.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Sex
  • Body
  • Feels

• Go, therefore, to meet the foe with two objects before you, either victory or death. For men animated by such a spirit must always overcome their adversaries, since they go into battle ready to throw away their lives.

  

  Scipio Africanus
  • Men
  • Spirit
  • Victory

• The cinema that I make is a cinema about people, emotion, humanity and passion. It's not just about what they struggle through, but what they live for. That's what I love. The music they love, the people they love, the clothing, the hair and the life that they love

  

  David O. Russell
  • People
  • Life
  • Music