David Fincher Quotes

I learn the most from making my own mistakes.

David Fincher

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• A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • You
  • Value
  • Painting

• I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Great
  • Different
  • Me

• I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • World
  • Power
  • Hope

• If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Red
  • Apple

• Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • People
  • Life
  • True

• For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Wonder
  • Shoe

• When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Night
  • Day
  • Challenge

• I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.

  

  Garik Israelian
  • May
  • Career
  • Science

• I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • World
  • Live
  • Small

• The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Interesting
  • Movies
  • Walk

• I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.

  

  Bar Paly
  • Women
  • Young
  • Genre

• I fed my ego, but not my soul.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Soul
  • Ego
  • My Soul

• There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Family
  • Father
  • Rich

• Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Trying
  • Death
  • Technology

• Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.

  

  Patricia A. Woertz
  • School
  • She
  • Education

• Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Age
  • Strength
  • Old Age

• I refuse to dress 'hot' for Halloween, 'cause I always have to have makeup and hair and look cute for my job. So on Halloween, I either go gory or weird or funny.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Job
  • Funny
  • Hair

• Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Power
  • Man
  • Beware

• Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Learning
  • Wisdom
  • Imagine

• Do unto others, then run.

  

  Benny Hill
  • Run

• The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.

  

  Jim Bunning
  • People
  • Trying
  • Stop

• For me, the characters are part of the story, and come out of its development. I don't base them on people, or parts of people – the Frankenstein method. I base them on what I've noticed about the human race. … I cannot tell you how stories develop. I have an initial idea, and start telling myself the story, day by day.

  

  Donald E. Westlake
  • People

• That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

  

  Steven Curtis Chapman
  • Music
  • Country
  • Pop

• I learn the most from making my own mistakes.

  

  David Fincher