David Fincher Quotes - Page 3

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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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• You’ll find that the movie business is paid for by those mega movies. The movie business is paid for by Big Macs. By movies as product. Movie studios use that term “product” all the time. Product? You mean you have a lot of stories? No, we have a lot of product. You have stories.

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  Mean, Stories, Use

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• A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

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  Film, Makers, Made

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

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• 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.

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• If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.

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  Would Be, Brad, If I Could

  "Directing is masochism" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2002.

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

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  Appreciation, Thinking, People

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

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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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  Movie, Stupid, Years

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

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

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  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.

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• 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.

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  Awards, People, Guy

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

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• I like the idea of R-rated franchises.

  David Fincher

  Ideas

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• I'm totally anti-commercialism.

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  Commercialism

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  Simple, Thinking, Dvds

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

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• I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

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  People, Fans, Letters

  "The Curious Case of David Fincher" by Brian Mockenhaupt, Esquire Magazine, March 2007.

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• I always say everyone was lucky enough to be in a Cate Blanchett movie.

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  Lucky, Enough

  "'Benjamin Button' Director David Fincher Talks Brad Pitt, Fate of 'Fight Club' Musical". Interview with Josh Horowitz, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2008.

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• I was a disinterested student.

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  Students, Disinterested

  "David Fincher: The Complex Mind of 'Social Network's' Anti-Social Director" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 2, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Interesting, Guy, Tape

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

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• 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.

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  Successful, Eight, Two

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

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

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  Children, Different, Way

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

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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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  Vader, Working It, Luke

  "David Fincher: The Complex Mind of 'Social Network's' Anti-Social Director" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 2, 2011.

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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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  People, Lines, Want

  "The Curious Case of David Fincher" by Brian Mockenhaupt, Esquire Magazine, March 2007.

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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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  Use, Faces, Perfume

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• And I love shooting football.

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  Football, Shooting

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• 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.

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  Opportunity, Television Commercials, Actors

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

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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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  Couple, Dvds, Yeah

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

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