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.

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).