I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.
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Silver Linings Playbook
Bradley Cooper, Julia Stiles, Robert De Niro, Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Tucker, Shea Whigham, Jacki Weaver, Dash Mihok, John Ortiz
by David O. Russell from Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
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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 you're doing.
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I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.
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That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.'
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Joy
Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Dascha Polanco, Elisabeth Rohm, Robert De Niro, Virginia Madsen, Isabella Rossellini, Edgar Ramirez, Drena De Niro, Donna Mills, Diane Ladd, Madison Wolfe
by David O. Russell from Joy (2015)
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Joy [trailer 2]
Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Dascha Polanco, Elisabeth Rohm, Robert De Niro, Virginia Madsen, Isabella Rossellini, Edgar Ramirez, Drena De Niro, Donna Mills, Diane Ladd, Madison Wolfe
by David O. Russell from Joy (2015)
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I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'
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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 bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films.
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I just love real characters, they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.
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