David O. Russell Quotes

A thousand years ago, scientists who wondered about consciousness and the nature of reality were burned at the stake. We still haven't recovered from that and it's left us with a culture that no longer investigates consciousness, except on the fringes.

David O. Russell

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• I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Goal
  • Process
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• You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Why

• There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Thing
  • Director
  • Cut

• I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.

  

  Verite
  • Work
  • New York
  • Week

• I was afraid of Korean food when I moved to L.A., let alone sushi. I remember thinking either sink or swim. Living here in Studio City, Ventura Blvd. is the Mecca of sushi restaurants. What you thought was so exotic is just run of the mill.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Food

• Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

  

  Sally Ride
  • American
  • Space
  • Responsibility

• I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Think

• Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Stop
  • Never
  • Company

• Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Want
  • Feel
  • Run

• You can't sit here and try to predict what kind of character I'm going to be drawn to next. At the time when I read 'The Girl on the Train,' it wasn't like I was, 'Ooh, I want to play a hot mess next.'

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Character
  • Girl

• I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • World
  • City
  • New York

• When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Good
  • Good People

• I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a method of exploring the ocean unobtrusively. The critical thing was that we didn't use white light, which I believe has been scaring the animals away.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Believe
  • Light
  • Ocean

• Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Screen
  • Cringe
  • Pouty

• If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Children
  • Think
  • Parenting

• When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Time
  • Home
  • Education

• If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Women
  • Father

• I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Work
  • House
  • Alone

• In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jeweled fan, I too am a rare Pattern.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Hair
  • Pattern
  • Brocaded

• In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Music
  • Sorrow
  • Terror

• We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Community

• Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

  

  Jacque Fresco
  • World
  • Real
  • Reality

• If we didn't have deadlines, we'd stagnate.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Stagnation
  • Deadlines

• A thousand years ago, scientists who wondered about consciousness and the nature of reality were burned at the stake. We still haven't recovered from that and it's left us with a culture that no longer investigates consciousness, except on the fringes.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Nature
  • Reality
  • Culture