David Fincher Quotes

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

David Fincher

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• I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Never
  • Many
  • Sue

• I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Happy
  • Peaceful
  • Be Happy

• We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Important
  • Imagination
  • Look

• If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Money
  • Business
  • Giving

• I've used the term 'Facebook for the enterprise,' and everyone goes, 'We don't want Facebook in the enterprise,' because it conjures up that it's not secure, and it's going to be a waste of time. All these things are true, which is why Facebook is not in the enterprise.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you're not in every scene, and then all of a sudden you're in every scene, it's rough.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Today
  • Free

• Quite simply, if you're feeling anxious, angry, a sense of shame, whatever it is, breathe in and agree to touch or feel it. Breathing out, offer space and care to whatever's there. If there's blocking to touching it, emphasize the in-breath and stay embodied.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Feeling
  • Space
  • Care

• During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Women
  • America

• As a rapper, you sort of act in music videos and in the persona you adopt onstage. You kinda have to put yourself out there and be courageous even to be a rapper. So, to step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Music
  • Yourself
  • Step

• I'm not a dark person at all, so those roles are the most challenging. I don't think I'm necessarily drawn to dark things. It just seems to work out that way.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Work
  • Think
  • Dark

• College kids want to be coached. They want to be taught. They might resist it a little bit early on, but the more you give, the more you get back.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Kids
  • Want
  • College

• If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Me
  • Never
  • Baseball

• In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Great
  • Men
  • Power

• I've been working almost 20 years, and I think I've worked with maybe one black director of photography in that time. Maybe two women directors or DPs. Maybe. And I've done a lot of TV. That's a lot of people I've worked with.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• There's something really personal about your voice, where if people talk shit on your guitar, 'Ugh, he played out of tune,' etc., you can, in your head, blame it on something else, but when you fuck up with your singing, that's part of you ... So I guess I'm an insecure enough dude that I just went back and really studied and tried to sing better.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • People
  • Up
  • Singing

• Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • Black

• On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.

  

  Warren Farrell

• The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.

  

  John Vanbrugh

• If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Fight
  • Army
  • Leader

• There was some kind of special power involved in repurposing language, redistributing the voices, changing the principle of patterning, faint sparks of alternative meaning in the shadow of the original sense, the narrative.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Language
  • Shadow
  • Changing

• I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.

  

  Wen Ho Lee
  • Best
  • Protect
  • Used

• I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness.

  

  Jairam Ramesh
  • Important
  • Priority

• I like studios. I just don't like bureaucracies.

  

  David Fincher