Top 74 David Fincher Quotes

#1. How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

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#2. I have great appreciation for people who do anything well. I think that it's very difficult to do what you do well.

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#3. In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

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#4. For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

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#5. You won't see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that's not who I am.

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#6. I was a disinterested student.

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#7. I want to make a movie that has enough impact that it's going to do what it needs to do. But I don't want to make a film that serial killers masturbate to.

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#8. I think title sequences are an opportunity to sort of set the stage or to get people thinking in different terms than maybe whatever they understand the movie to be going in.

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#9. Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.

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#10. It's based not only on what it played like in the theater, but it's also knowing that certain things play differently in a home theater environment. You have different expectations when you're sitting with 700 people than when you're sitting with your friends or family. It's just a different world.

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#11. You have the power to pause stuff and you have the power to go to the bathroom. You can do whatever you want in your own home. It's a much more relaxed thing. It's more like a book, it seems to me. That's kind of the way I watch movies.

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#12. You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them. You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.

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#13. A lot of people hated 'Alien 3.'

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#14. I want people to surprise themselves. Instead of saying "Oh, god, didn't we already do this 17 times?"

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#15. There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch.

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#16. Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.

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#17. Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.

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#18. And I love shooting football.

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#19. I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again.

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#20. I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself, a wholly human concern.

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#21. A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

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#22. People go to the movies to see things they haven't seen before. Call me a radical.

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#23. The simple-minded always look for something - if it's not pornography, it's DVDs or the Internet or video games - but I don't think there's anything inherently evil about Facebook.

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#24. Awards movies are normally sort of ... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

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#25. I was always interested in films that scar.

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#26. I have demons you can't even imagine.

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#27. Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time.

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#28. Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.

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#29. People always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and Paramount.

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#30. Look, it's nice. I like the fact that critics liked this movie, but most of the movies that I've made, you'll find a handful of people that love it and more than a few other handfuls of people hate it. If I was invested in that, I would've given up long ago.

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#31. I want people to flourish. I want them to walk away from the experience going, "That's what it should be like."

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#32. For me, the scariest thing about a serial killer is that there's somebody who lives next door to you, running power tools late into the night, and you don't know he has a refrigerator full of penises.

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#33. Again, a franchise to me doesn't have to be a billion dollar title.

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#34. When you go and you tell a studio and that it's an ensemble, that doesn't mean a lot to them. But, my hats off to Paramount and Warner Brothers, because when we told them that these were the kinds of people that we want to get, across the board, they were unbelieveably enthusiastic about it.

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#35. I like the idea of R-rated franchises.

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#36. I always say everyone was lucky enough to be in a Cate Blanchett movie.

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#37. The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

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#38. I'm totally anti-commercialism.

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#39. We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman is created.

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#40. Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.

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#41. I learned just to be a belligerent asshole, which was really: "You have to get what you need to get out of it." You have to fight for things you believe in, and you have to be smart about how you position it so that you don't just become white noise.

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#42. I don't know how to depict intelligence.

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#43. I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.

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#44. I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.

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#45. It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.

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#46. If you read the good reviews you gotta read the bad reviews. I kind of think of it as like being a quarterback: you get way too much blame when it's bad and way too much credit when it's good.

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#47. Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

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#48. I learn the most from making my own mistakes.

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#49. I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.

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#50. Sometimes people freak out when you shoot 40 takes of something. They start looking at you like, "What did I do wrong?", and its like "No. It's not wrong. It's just that we are going to try something different."

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#51. Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.

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#52. I like people that like to work the way that I like to work.

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#53. I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.

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#54. If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.

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#55. Every child is different. Every child responds in a different way.

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#56. You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.

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#57. People will say, 'There are a million ways to shoot a scene,' but I don't think so. I think there are two, maybe. And the other one is wrong.

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#58. I like studios. I just don't like bureaucracies.

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#59. Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time.

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#60. For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

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#61. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

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#62. People are perverts...that's pretty much been the basis of my career anyway.

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#63. You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.

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#64. Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.

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#65. It's a very American thing to hide away from death.

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#66. The thing is, that great actors are everywhere. They're everywhere. They're doing good parts on television. They're doing television commercials. They're doing local theater. There are so few opportunities.

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#67. When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.

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#68. We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe.

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#69. You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better and want to ape the success.

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#70. My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

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#71. The thing I always say to any writer that I'm working with is: Just make sure that in any argument, EVERYONE is right. I want every single person arguing a righteous side of the argument. That makes interesting drama.

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#72. You'll find that the movie business is paid for by those mega movies. The movie business is paid for by Big Macs. By movies as product. Movie studios use that term "product" all the time. Product? You mean you have a lot of stories? No, we have a lot of product. You have stories.

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#73. Hire the right people and get the hell out of the way.

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#74. We live in a silly time, and people go to the movies to see something that they haven't seen before, and you have to promise to show them that. In a horrible way, you have to promise them a special effect.

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