David Fincher Quotes
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I find it amoral if you're making a movie where the problem is solved with a guy standing in the back of pickup truck firing a machine at the bad guys. The morality of it is questionable because the repercussions of violence are incredibly far-reaching.
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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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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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My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.
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A stylized version of our IKEA present. It is talking about very simple concepts. 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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For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.
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Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.
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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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You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.
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In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.
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A lot of people hated 'Alien 3.'
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I thought it was so strange because I normally make these pitch-black studies of misanthropes or the occasional movie about serial killers, sowhat could the possibly see in this material for me.
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As much as people pretend 'I fit in, I understand, I get the rules,' there are always times spent away from that where you go, 'I thought I knew. It seemed so clear to me, and then...' That sense of loneliness, or the sense of not fitting in or being out of depth, is probably the most common denominator.
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I always feel ill-prepared for commentaries and it had been so long I was afraid I'd forget everything that happened on the film. But having everybody come together for it was really great. It was like a high school reunion. We all reminisced and just had a great time.
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Thank you to the stellar collection of photographers, designers, editors, musicians, costumers, painters, researchers, electricians and craftspeople who without whom I'd just be a bitter man with a lot of opinions
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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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I was a disinterested student.
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I learn the most from making my own mistakes.
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I tend to over-intellectualize things, to come at them from a structural point.
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How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.
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The movie is not that violent. There are ideas in the movie that are scary, but the film isn't about violence, the glorification of violence or the embracing of violence. In the movie, violence is a metaphor for feeling. It's a film about the problems or requirements involved with being masculine in today's society.
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A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.
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Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.
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If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.