David Fincher Quotes

Violence shouldn't be presented as drama. I think people looking for an easy way out often write scenes where characters come into violent conflict as opposed to looking for the true drama in the situation. That's a shortcoming of a lot of films and television shows. I think certain presentations of violence are not immoral, but amoral.

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• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• Any manager can do well in an expanding market.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Market
  • Well
  • Manager

• Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Shine

• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Diversity
  • Just
  • Big

• As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Relationships

• Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Guy
  • Nice
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• The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • World
  • May
  • Political

• The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Problem
  • Impossible
  • Rich

• In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Desire
  • Hero
  • Perception

• If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Real
  • Want

• When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Men
  • Attention
  • Simple

• Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Men
  • Shows
  • Rural

• A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Time
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  • Place

• They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Hope
  • Will
  • Go

• The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Free
  • Stop
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• Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

  

  Jack Germond
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• In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.

  

  Kate Adie
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• I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • God
  • Me
  • Son

• Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Better
  • Class
  • Environmental

• Sing with me, sing for the years. Sing for the laughter'n sing for the tears.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Singing
  • Years
  • Tears

• People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.

  

  Bonnie Raitt
  • People
  • Music
  • Men

• Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.

  

  Donald Norman
  • Learning
  • Text

• Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.

  

  John Thorn
  • Future

• Violence shouldn't be presented as drama. I think people looking for an easy way out often write scenes where characters come into violent conflict as opposed to looking for the true drama in the situation. That's a shortcoming of a lot of films and television shows. I think certain presentations of violence are not immoral, but amoral.

  

  David Fincher
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