David Fincher Quotes
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I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that…
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I have demons you can't even imagine.
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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 know…
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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…
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A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the filmmakers. I think that The Game is…
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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…
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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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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 through…
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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…
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You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.
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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…
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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 okay.…
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The thing I always say to any writer that I'm working with is: Just make sure that in any argument, EVERYONE is right. I want…
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You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.
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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…
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I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself, a wholly human…
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How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.
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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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Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.
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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…
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