David Fincher Quotes
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I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.
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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.
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I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.
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Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.
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You won't see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that's not who I am.
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You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.
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Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.
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You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.
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I like the idea of R-rated franchises.
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I don't know how to depict intelligence.
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Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.
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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.
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Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.
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I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.
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I'm totally anti-commercialism.
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I like studios. I just don't like bureaucracies.
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Again, a franchise to me doesn't have to be a billion dollar title.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.
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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.
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You can either look at your career as the things you're going to leave behind, and they have to be executed flawlessly and you have to know exactly what it is that you're doing. Or you can be realistic about the fact that you're going to learn as you practice what you do.
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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.