121 Quotes by David O. Russell

Life just happens the way it’s supposed to happen. It delivers you to where it delivers you.

The investigation of consciousness has come to be regarded suspiciously by most smart people and by most scientists. That’s a legacy that began with the Inquisition, which considered non-Christian spiritual inquiry as blasphemous.

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.

The whole trick is to make it feel like you’re spying on real people’s lives as they get through the day. When I’m writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, ‘I’m writing,’ I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn’t feel as real as when it doesn’t seem to count as much.

Some of Jimmy Stewart’s performance in ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ is some of the most disturbing performance he ever did, when he falls apart and when he breaks down.

Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God’s name.

Quite frankly, the bible is filled with advice that you’d never, want to follow. “Don’t cut your hair on a rainy Thursday because locusts will eat your farm” kind of thing.

Just work on your craft hard – that’s your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they’ve been through a war with PTSD or a head injury, their families have a handful when they come home.