David O. Russell's Best Films Are Thrilling

You Learn By Trying And Failing. Just A Lot Of Hard Work And Mistakes.

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.

I Hadn't Made That Movie Before And When I Ever Met The Real Joy Mangano, Which Happened Because De Niro Insisted We Meet Her And Her Father, That's What She Felt Like To Us. She Impressed Us With Her Quiet, Serene Authority With Herself.

A Thousand Years Ago, Scientists Who Wondered About Consciousness And The Nature Of Reality Were Burned At The Stake. We Still Haven't Recovered From That And It's Left Us With A Culture That No Longer Investigates Consciousness, Except On The Fringes.

You Should Always Make It Like It's Your Last Film. That's My Personal Belief. Every Filmmaker Is Going To Have Another Belief... That's The Only Way I Know To Try To Make A Film That Might Be Good. You Got To Take It Real Seriously Like It's Your Last Thing.