David O. Russell Quotes
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.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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How lucky am I?
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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God is waiting for us, to forgive us all, and what is broken, he'll fix.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I love rock n' rollers.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.
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It's very difficult to balance different audiences and talk to each one without selling the others short. There is no universal literature - or, if there is, I don't know how to write it.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.
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You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.
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I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
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Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass.
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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
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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.
