My tag line for 'Silver Linings' is this: It's about a man who thinks his life is a movie produced by God.
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'Silver Linings' has proved a golden opportunity for me.
Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God.
When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles and male bonding, but when the book came out, it was surprising to me that the mental health community embraced it.
I love Russell Crowe's line to Oliver Reed in 'Gladiator' where he asks him, 'Are you in danger of becoming a good man?' It's one of my favorite lines ever.
Every crowd has a silver lining.
The Lord, over the years, grew a seed in my heart to make faith-based films.
What men call accident is God's own part.
'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
On 'Silver Linings Playbook,' David O. Russell is the master at getting his actors to give him something that he doesn't expect. He loves to keep things spontaneous. He talks to the actors throughout a take because, in real life, you don't know what the next person is going to say; you don't know when you're going to get interrupted.
'Fargo' was the turnaround for me, in terms of film, because it was a part; it wasn't a line.