David Fincher Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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• I don't know how to depict intelligence.

  David Fincher

  Know How, Knows

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• Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.

  David Fincher

  Stupid, Thinking, Hollywood

  "The Curious Case of David Fincher". Interview with Brian Mockenhaupt, www.esquire.com. March 1, 2007.

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• 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.

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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.

  David Fincher

  Impact, Serial Killer, Needs

  "The Curious Case of David Fincher". Interview with Brian Mockenhaupt, www.esquire.com. March 1, 2007.

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• What you learn from that first, and I don't call it 'trial by fire,' I call it 'baptism by fire,' is that you are going to have to take all of the responsibility, because basically when it gets right down to it, you are going to get all of the blame, so you might as well have made all of the decisions that led to people either liking it or disliking it. There's nothing worse than hearing somebody say 'Oh, you made that movie? I thought that movie sucked,' and you have to agree with them, you know?

  David Fincher

  Responsibility, Fire, People

  "David Fincher and Quint talk about everything from A(lien3) to Z(odiac)!!!". Interview with Quint, www.aintitcool.com. January 1, 2008.

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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.

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• How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

  David Fincher

  Movie, One Day At A Time, One Day

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• Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.

  David Fincher

  Hands, Medicine, Littles

  "The Curious Case of David Fincher". Interview with Brian Mockenhaupt, www.esquire.com. March 1, 2007.

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• 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.

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• Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.

  David Fincher

  Decisions You Make, Film, Ownership

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• 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.

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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.

  David Fincher

  Bad Day, Needs, Done

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• Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.

  David Fincher

  Abandoned, Finished

  "10 Things We Learned About David Fincher and ‘Gone Girl’ At Film Independent Event" by Zack Sharf, www.indiewire.com. October 10, 2014.

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• When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.

  David Fincher

  Believe, Mean, People

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• 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.

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• I do agree you can't just make movies three hours long for no apparent reason. For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

  David Fincher

  Long, Three, Comedy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.

  David Fincher

  Thinking, Commentary, Knows

  "David Fincher - Seven & Fight Club". Interview with Paul Guyot, www.dvdtalk.com. 1999.

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• You can’t take everything on. That’s why when people ask how does this film fit into my oeuvre. I say 'I don’t know. I don’t think in those terms’. If I did, I might become incapacitated by fear . . . How do you eat a whale? One bite at a time. How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

  David Fincher

  Thinking, Whales, People

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• 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.

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• For me, the scariest thing about a serial killer is that there's somebody who lives next door to you, running power tools late into the night, and you don't know he has a refrigerator full of penises.

  David Fincher

  Running, Night, Doors

  "The Curious Case of David Fincher". Interview with Brian Mockenhaupt, www.esquire.com. March 1, 2007.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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