David O. Russell Quotes

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.

David O. Russell

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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.

Flume
- Life
- Up
- Job
If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.

Zach Galligan
- People
- Up
- Time
I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

Barbra Streisand
- Great
- Remember
- Building
The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.

C. Everett Koop
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving
- Age
- Never
- Tongue
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

M. H. Abrams
- You
- Learn
- Changing