Best Fincher Quotes

#1. 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. - Author: David Fincher

#2. A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers. - Author: David Fincher

#3. 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. - Author: David Fincher

#4. 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. - Author: David Fincher

#5. I thought 'Fight Club' was great as David Fincher's version. - Author: Chuck Palahniuk

#6. There were two auditions for 'The Social Network,' one with Aaron Sorkin and one with David Fincher. I was a nervous wreck. I was like, 'Okay, how do I hold the paper without my hands making it shake?' - Author: Armie Hammer

#7. When I look at that now, all I think about is what a master [David Fincher] I was working with, and all of the things I could have watched and learned - and I didn't. And how, now, in my career, how I would love to have a ton of takes. - Author: Jake Gyllenhaal

#8. David Fincher is one of the best directors I know, so I'm really curious to see it. Really curious, and I want to hear Daniel have the Swedish accent. - Author: Michael Nyqvist

#9. You never know what's coming for ya" from the 2008 American romantic fantasy drama film 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', directed by David Fincher. - Author: Unknown

#10. And I love shooting football. - Author: David Fincher

#11. Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad. - Author: David Fincher

#12. Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that. - Author: David Fincher

#13. 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. - Author: David Fincher

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

#15. A lot of people hated 'Alien 3.' - Author: David Fincher

#16. 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. - Author: David Fincher

#17. How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time. - Author: David Fincher

#18. 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. - Author: David Fincher

#19. Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie. - Author: David Fincher

#20. 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. - Author: David Fincher

#21. 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. - Author: David Fincher

#22. David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix. - Author: Ted Sarandos

#23. In 'Se7en' and 'Fight Club,' Fincher proved his suave mastery of film violence; in Zodiac, his way of clarifying the many clues in a murder thriller. As he showed in 'The Social Network,' the director also knows that no wound is more toxic than a friend's betrayal. - Author: Richard Corliss

#24. I was a disinterested student. - Author: David Fincher

#25. I'm not doing a Mulder, there was no character reference-point. I think Mark Buchman shot it very David Fincher, but we did not know what the [X-Files] show was going to be. - Author: David Giuntoli

#26. You won't see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that's not who I am. - Author: David Fincher

#27. For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages. - Author: David Fincher

#28. I have more faith in doing something creative for a cable station or something like Yahoo or Google or Amazon. What Netflix did with 'House of Cards' and David Fincher was brilliant. That is inspiring to me. I think there is more chance for creativity in animation, it just hasn't happened there yet. - Author: Henry Selick

#29. David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we're kind of dad-friends through that, too. - Author: Anthony Edwards

#30. In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light. - Author: David Fincher

#31. I've recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries. - Author: Jay Roach

#32. I have great appreciation for people who do anything well. I think that it's very difficult to do what you do well. - Author: David Fincher