121 Quotes by David O. Russell

I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.

It's not easy to follow Jesus' example, and if you go to church it doesn't mean you're automatically doing it.

The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.

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

It's absurd that we're so quick to criticize Muslims for being fundamentalist when Christians can be just as extreme and fanatical and frightening.

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.

It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.

The endings for all my characters seem sufficiently human and messy for me to feel comfortable with them. In some ways they have only moved an inch, but sometimes an inch is a great distance.

Unhappy endings can be as cheap as happy endings.