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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.

Adam McKay

I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
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Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
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I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.

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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.

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