My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive. — David Fincher Copy Share Image
Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies. — David Fincher Copy Share Image
People always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people. — David Fincher Copy Share Image
I want people to surprise themselves. Instead of saying "Oh, god, didn't we already do this 17 times?" — David Fincher Copy Share Image
Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine. Some people go to the movies to be reminded… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
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… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
We live in a silly time, and people go to the movies to see something that they haven't seen before, and you… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
Sometimes people freak out when you shoot 40 takes of something. They start looking at you like, "What did I do wrong?",… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
I think title sequences are an opportunity to sort of set the stage or to get people thinking in different terms than… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
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… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
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… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
Our Pavlovian response to movies has gotten to its lowest point ever. You look at a lot of movies that are successful… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
When you go and you tell a studio and that it's an ensemble, that doesn't mean a lot to them. But, my… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
What you learn from that first, and I don't call it 'trial by fire,' I call it 'baptism by fire,' is that… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
People will say, 'There are a million ways to shoot a scene,' but I don't think so. I think there are two,… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people. — David Fincher Copy Share Image
People go to the movies to see things they haven’t seen before. Call me a radical. — David Fincher Copy Share Image
I want people to flourish. I want them to walk away from the experience going, "That's what it should be like." — David Fincher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's based not only on what it played like in the theater, but it's also knowing that certain things play differently in… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
“If you think that you can hide what your interests are, what your prurient interests are, what your noble interests are, what your fascinations… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
I learned just to be a belligerent asshole, which was really: "You have to get what you need to get out of it." You… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers. — David Fincher Copy Share Image
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… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and follow them… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine. Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school. I didn't… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
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… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
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… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
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… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
