Top 100 Fincher's Quotes
#1. I thought 'Fight Club' was great as David Fincher's version.
Chuck Palahniuk
#2. I've always been a huge fan of thrillers like David Fincher's 'Se7en.' I am fascinated by the disturbing, dark underbelly of life. I find such films deeply engrossing. They delve deep into the human psyche, and that's a place worth exploring.
Emraan Hashmi
#3. David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.
Ted Sarandos
#5. I love so many directors. I love David O. Russell. I love David Fincher, I love Alexander Payne and Jane Campion and my aunt. Spike Jonze. There are just so many amazing directors.
Gia Coppola
#6. Cameron, Gilliam, Jackson, Fincher, Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg, Del Toro, Tarantino. And, of course, Kevin Smith.
Ernest Cline
#7. I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.
David Fincher
#8. I like people that like to work the way that I like to work.
David Fincher
#9. Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.
David Fincher
#10. 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."
David Fincher
#11. I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.
David Fincher
#13. I'm friends with [David] Fincher. [James] Cameron gives me advice. I know a fair amount of directors who have been through it, and they all felt pretty confident that I would be fine when I got my shot. So their confidence made me feel confident.
Timothy Miller
#14. Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.
David Fincher
#15. 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.
David Fincher
#16. When I did 'The Social Network', David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.
Dakota Johnson
#17. 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.
David Fincher
#18. I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.
David Fincher
#19. I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.
David Fincher
#21. 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.
David Fincher
#22. Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.
David Fincher
#23. 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.
David Fincher
#25. 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.
David Fincher
#26. I always say everyone was lucky enough to be in a Cate Blanchett movie.
David Fincher
#27. My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.
David Fincher
#28. People are perverts...that's pretty much been the basis of my career anyway.
David Fincher
#29. 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.
David Fincher
#30. 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.
David Fincher
#31. No one's ever going to make a PG-13 animated film unless David Fincher executive produces it and puts it out on Netflix, and then if it's a success everyone will change.
Henry Selick
#32. People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.
Chuck Palahniuk
#33. 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.
David Fincher
#34. 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.
David Fincher
#35. There really isn't a dream role, but there's a dream situation where I could work with a director that I idolize. So, the idea of working with David Fincher or Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson or Scorsese or Spielberg or any of the guys I really idolize is a dream for me.
Logan Lerman
#36. It's a very American thing to hide away from death.
David Fincher
#37. Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.
David Fincher
#38. I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.
Dwight Yoakam
#39. You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.
David Fincher
#40. [I watch] Fincher, Spielberg, Cameron, McTiernan. Just people who are good at staging action. I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.
Steven Soderbergh
#41. I adapt to directors, I don't like making directors adapt to me. If I'm with Clint Eastwood then I'll do two takes, if I'm with Fincher I'll do 50 - though the thought of that sounds horrible.
Jennifer Lawrence
#42. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.
David Fincher
#43. 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.
David Fincher
#44. 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.
David Fincher
#45. I like studios. I just don't like bureaucracies.
David Fincher
#46. 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.
David Fincher
#47. You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.
David Fincher
#48. I love David Fincher - even though it was just two scenes, I loved the way we worked and could tell by the way he was shooting it that this was going to be an affective movie to say the least.
Richard Schiff
#49. Every child is different. Every child responds in a different way.
David Fincher
#50. I think I'm generally - fear, fear is very still, so in terms of that kind of fear - there's so many different kinds of fear, but fear is something, particularly in movies, that's interesting, because it's created by the film maker, that was created by [David] Fincher, that's why he's brilliant.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#51. When I think about directing a film, the thing that stops me short is wondering if I'm a natural at it the way I think you, and PTA, and Fincher are born directors. Maybe some people's talent is in understanding the ways that film communicates, without dialogue, without plot.
Edward Norton
#52. 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.
David Fincher
#53. 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.
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#55. Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.
David Fincher
#56. Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.
David Fincher
#57. 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.
David Fincher
#58. I want people to surprise themselves. Instead of saying "Oh, god, didn't we already do this 17 times?"
David Fincher
#60. 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.
David Fincher
#61. 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.
David Fincher
#62. 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.
David Fincher
#63. Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.
David Fincher
#64. 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.
David Fincher
#65. 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.
Michael Nyqvist
#66. 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.
Richard Corliss
#68. 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.
David Giuntoli
#69. You won't see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that's not who I am.
David Fincher
#70. For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.
David Fincher
#71. 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.
Henry Selick
#72. 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.
Anthony Edwards
#73. In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.
David Fincher
#74. I've recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.
Jay Roach
#75. I have great appreciation for people who do anything well. I think that it's very difficult to do what you do well.
David Fincher
#76. How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.
David Fincher
#78. Fincher was the kind of Southerner who will try to address you through a web of deep and antic southernness, and who assumes every body in earshot knows all about his parents and history and wants to hear an update about them at every opportunity. He looks young, but still manages to act 65.
Richard Ford
#80. 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.
David Fincher
#81. Again, a franchise to me doesn't have to be a billion dollar title.
David Fincher
#82. 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.
David Fincher
#83. It's interesting because when David Fincher was making "Fight Club," he said, "It's a romance." And it really is. Almost everything I ever write is just a romance. And that needed to be sort of pointed up at the end of "Fight Club." The film has a very different ending than the book does.
Chuck Palahniuk
#84. I want people to flourish. I want them to walk away from the experience going, "That's what it should be like."
David Fincher
#85. 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.
David Fincher
#86. People always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and Paramount.
David Fincher
#87. Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.
David Fincher
#88. Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time.
David Fincher
#89. I love David Fincher and I think he's a genius.
Trent Reznor
#91. 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.
David Fincher
#93. 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.
David Fincher
#94. The two things that got everyone's attention about the 'House of Cards' deal was the two-season commitment and David Fincher. After David Fincher directs a series for Netflix, no one else can say, 'Well, I'm not going to direct a series for the Internet.'
Ted Sarandos
#95. People go to the movies to see things they haven't seen before. Call me a radical.
David Fincher
#96. A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.
David Fincher
#97. 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.
David Fincher
#98. 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.
David Fincher
#99. 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?'
Armie Hammer
#100. 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.
Jake Gyllenhaal
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