Latest David Fincher Quotes from Interviews

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• I want people to flourish. I want them to walk away from the experience going, "That's what it should be like."

  David Fincher

  People, Want, Should

  "Rooney Mara and David Fincher". Interview with Rooney Mara and David Fincher, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 28, 2011.

• I want people to surprise themselves. Instead of saying "Oh, god, didn't we already do this 17 times?"

  David Fincher

  People, Want, Surprise

  Interview with Rooney Mara and David Fincher, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 28, 2011.

• Every child is different. Every child responds in a different way.

  David Fincher

  Children, Different, Way

  "Rooney Mara and David Fincher". www.interviewmagazine.com. November 28, 2011.

• I have great appreciation for people who do anything well. I think that it's very difficult to do what you do well.

  David Fincher

  Appreciation, Thinking, People

  "Rooney Mara and David Fincher". www.interviewmagazine.com. November 28, 2011.

• Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

  David Fincher

  Awards, People, Guy

  "EXCLUSIVE: David Fincher Talks Zodiac: Director's Cut". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 7, 2008.

• Look, it's nice. I like the fact that critics liked this movie, but most of the movies that I've made, you'll find a handful of people that love it and more than a few other handfuls of people hate it. If I was invested in that, I would've given up long ago.

  David Fincher

  Hate, Nice, Long Ago

  "EXCLUSIVE: David Fincher Talks Zodiac: Director's Cut". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 7, 2008.

• Our Pavlovian response to movies has gotten to its lowest point ever. You look at a lot of movies that are successful and a lot of movies that studios hold up as examples and you go, 'My God, that isn't even a story. It isn't even two acts. It's eight set pieces drawn out with slow motion.' The difficulty for me was that you had to hope that people were interested in this kind of a story.

  David Fincher

  Successful, Eight, Two

  "EXCLUSIVE: David Fincher Talks Zodiac: Director's Cut". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 7, 2008.

• When you go and you tell a studio and that it's an ensemble, that doesn't mean a lot to them. But, my hats off to Paramount and Warner Brothers, because when we told them that these were the kinds of people that we want to get, across the board, they were unbelieveably enthusiastic about it.

  David Fincher

  Brother, Mean, People

  "EXCLUSIVE: David Fincher Talks Zodiac: Director's Cut". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 7, 2008.

• If I see a movie for the first time on DVD, I watch it all the way through, the lights are down, I don't pick up the phone. The third or fourth time you see a movie, sometimes you just have them on and you check in every once in a while with things that you liked. I think it's a different expectations from that environment.

  David Fincher

  Thinking, Phones, Light

  "EXCLUSIVE: David Fincher Talks Zodiac: Director's Cut". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 7, 2008.

• The thing is, that great actors are everywhere. They're everywhere. They're doing good parts on television. They're doing television commercials. They're doing local theater. There are so few opportunities.

  David Fincher

  Opportunity, Television Commercials, Actors

  "EXCLUSIVE: David Fincher Talks Zodiac: Director's Cut". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 7, 2008.

• You have the power to pause stuff and you have the power to go to the bathroom. You can do whatever you want in your own home. It's a much more relaxed thing. It's more like a book, it seems to me. That's kind of the way I watch movies.

  David Fincher

  Book, Home, Watches

  "EXCLUSIVE: David Fincher Talks Zodiac: Director's Cut". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 7, 2008.

• It's based not only on what it played like in the theater, but it's also knowing that certain things play differently in a home theater environment. You have different expectations when you're sitting with 700 people than when you're sitting with your friends or family. It's just a different world.

  David Fincher

  Home, Play, Knowing

  "EXCLUSIVE: David Fincher Talks Zodiac: Director's Cut". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 7, 2008.

• I thought that the behavioral and some of the profiling stuff was interesting. The thing that I was most interested in, and the thing that we were really adament about, was let's get these guys who were there on tape, or in some kind of way, telling what happened. No one has really talked to them all.

  David Fincher

  Interesting, Guy, Tape

  "EXCLUSIVE: David Fincher Talks Zodiac: Director's Cut". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 7, 2008.

• We live in a silly time, and people go to the movies to see something that they haven't seen before, and you have to promise to show them that. In a horrible way, you have to promise them a special effect.

  David Fincher

  Silly, People, Promise

  Interview with Mark Salisbury, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2009.

• I learned just to be a belligerent asshole, which was really: "You have to get what you need to get out of it." You have to fight for things you believe in, and you have to be smart about how you position it so that you don't just become white noise.

  David Fincher

  Smart, Believe, Fighting

  Interview with Mark Salisbury, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2009.

• I want stuff to play as wide as possible. I want to be able to see... if I could play the whole thing in a master and it could be compelling enough, that'd be great. Then it simplifies my day, it simplifies life for the actors when you could just focus on that. But by the same token I don't want to be forced into coverage. So I want it to be as good from every angle and I need to get as many of the kind of shadings that I want from every angle.

  David Fincher

  Play, Focus, Want

  "Exclusive: David Fincher Talks ‘Social Network’, ‘Zodiac’, His Filmmaking Process, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 30, 2010.

• I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.

  David Fincher

  College, Life Is Like, Dorms

  "Exclusive: David Fincher Talks ‘Social Network’, ‘Zodiac’, His Filmmaking Process, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 30, 2010.

• If you read the good reviews you gotta read the bad reviews. I kind of think of it as like being a quarterback: you get way too much blame when it's bad and way too much credit when it's good.

  David Fincher

  Thinking, Credit, Too Much

  "Exclusive: David Fincher Talks ‘Social Network’, ‘Zodiac’, His Filmmaking Process, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. December 30, 2010.

• When you cast somebody you cast them not only for... I look for an inherent kind of quality. You are going to be shooting 14 hour days and you are going to be tired. You are going to not necessarily be able to conjure armor or a façade every single moment.

  David Fincher

  Single Mom, Tired, Quality

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 19, 2011.

• Sometimes people freak out when you shoot 40 takes of something. They start looking at you like, "What did I do wrong?", and its like "No. It's not wrong. It's just that we are going to try something different."

  David Fincher

  People, Trying, Different

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 19, 2011.

• I think title sequences are an opportunity to sort of set the stage or to get people thinking in different terms than maybe whatever they understand the movie to be going in.

  David Fincher

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  "Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig, and Director David Fincher THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Interview". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 19, 2011.

• I like people that like to work the way that I like to work.

  David Fincher

  People, Way

  "Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig, and Director David Fincher THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Interview". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 19, 2011.

• The simple-minded always look for something - if it's not pornography, it's DVDs or the Internet or video games - but I don't think there's anything inherently evil about Facebook.

  David Fincher

  Simple, Thinking, Dvds

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 27, 2010.

• Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time.

  David Fincher

  Way, Waste, Humans

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 27, 2010.