David O. Russell Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

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

  David O. Russell

  Writing, Duty, Jury Duty

• I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.

  David O. Russell

  Jobs, Writing, Class

• The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.

  David O. Russell

  Real, Writing, People

  "David O. Russell is back in the neighbourhood" by Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2012.

• When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes from a deeper place. The same thing happens when the actors go, take after take, and just get lost in it. When you're in a house, you don't think about being in the house; you're just there.

  David O. Russell

  Writing, Thinking, House

  "David O. Russell is back in the neighbourhood" by Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2012.

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