It's A Closing Of The Mind That

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.

In Order To Reinvent Yourself, You Have To Dig Deep And Look At Yourself. I'd Lost My Way Creatively, And I Was Humbled, And So I Think I Got Really Basic About Wanting To Depict People In The Ways That I Find Them Amazing And Funny And Emotional And That I Can Relate To And Do From An Instinctive, Gut Place. People Trying To Survive ... That's What All My Movies Are About.

What Do We Have In Life, Really? If We're Lucky We Get To A Certain Age, And We Have Each Other. We Have The Food We Like. We Have Our Crazy Little Rituals. And We Have Each Other.

David O. Russell's Best Films Are Thrilling High Wire Acts That Run The Moment To Moment Risk Of Tumbling To The Ground. In His Latest, "joy," Russell Has More Trouble Than Usual Keeping His Balance On The Wire.

It's Not Easy To Follow Jesus' Example, And If You Go To Church It Doesn't Mean You're Automatically Doing It.