I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work.

Without this community I would never have made this film. He's brilliant.

His films include Spanking the Monkey (1994) Flirting with Disaster (1996) Three Kings (1999) I ♥ Huckabees (2004) The Fighter (2010) and Silver Linings Playbook (2012). For other people named David Russell see David Russell (disambiguation).