I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in 'The Fighter….

It's easier to control people when they're afraid..

The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what yo….

The romance is essential. I love the love. I don't love just people struggling. I love what people are struggling for. That moves me. I love watching….

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, ….

I make every movie and every scene like it could be my last. That's the only way I know how to make cinema that stands on its feet. I have to treat i….

Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are..

The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all..

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," Russel….

I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislike….

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write..

Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education..

That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous and funny. That's part of being h….

The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous..

The cinema that I make is a cinema about people, emotion, humanity and passion. It's not just about what they struggle through, but what they live fo….

I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bar….

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got..

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

If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile..

That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's….

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….