Sadly, this picture [ Joy] does not go from strength to strength. It sinks into a morass of tedious obstacles to this woman's success. Joy the person may be able to surmount all barriers, but the film with her name on it is not so fortunate.
David O. RussellWhen 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. RussellThe idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.
David O. RussellWhat we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity.
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