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David O. Russell Quotes

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.

David O. Russell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: August 20, 1958

Topics

Experience Song Think Moments You

I remember going to a theater once, and there was a stairway that wound its way out to the back. And I was very young, a small child, and I said to my mom, 'Why are those people going up those stairs?' And she said, 'You know, I don't know how to tell you this, I don't know how to explain it, but it won't always be that way, because it's wrong.'

Joe R. Lansdale

Child People Mom Small Remember You

I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Fear God Man Religion Reach Done

The way I approach acting when there's a real life character, it's sort of like a Venn diagram. What I come up with is some amalgam of the two of us.

John Lithgow

Life Character Acting Way Real Up

Moms that get evicted are depressed and have higher rates of depressive symptoms two years later. That has to affect their interactions with their kids and their sense of happiness. You add all that together, and it's just really obvious to me that eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.

Matthew Desmond

Happiness Together Me Poverty You

I was the youngest member of the New York International Brotherhood of Magicians. It was me and a bunch of 60-year-old Jewish men.

Matt McGorry

Men New York Me Brotherhood New

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

Jeff Foxworthy

Jealousy Jealous Year Never Been

'The White Ribbon' had to be in German because of the subject matter, that was clear. But in the case of 'Amour,' it could have taken place in any country.

Michael Haneke

White Country Place Matter Clear

My feeling is that the English are naturally anti-Semitic.

Miriam Margolyes

Feeling English Anti-Semitic

I always think about making a CD you can hear in your car, your house party, with wonderful energy for all.

Little Louie Vega

Car Energy Think You House Party

My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to shearing shed. My mother always wanted us to be educated, so I went to a school.

Jason Clarke

Father Mother School Sheep Go Up

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

Diane Wakoski

Poetry American Gender Landscape Out

I started with superhero stuff - 'X-Men' and 'Spider-Man' and 'Batman' and 'Hellboy' - but I wasn't familiar with 'The Strain' until I started the show.

Corey Stoll

Superhero Started Spider-Man Stuff