"Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture……" — David Fincher
"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 what the point was. The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two."
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57 Quotes by David Fincher
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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…
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I have demons you can't even imagine.
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You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people…
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A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the filmmakers. I…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine. Some people go to the movies to…
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural…
— David Attenborough
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Gene Mean, look at our body. Cameraman, zoom!
— The Iron Sheik
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My technicians are my most important tools. Once I establish a rapport with them, then they would understand me in…
— Yash Chopra
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A saucer flew right over (us), put down three landing gears, and landed out on the dry lakebed. (The cameramen)…
— Gordon Cooper
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There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical…
— Gordon Willis
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There's a difference between ad-libbing and improvising. And there's a difference between not knowing what to do and just saying…
— John Cassavetes
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What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is…
— Walker Evans
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Whether you're a cameraman or a director, you should ask yourself every now and then, 'What am I trying to…
— James Wong Howe
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Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
— Barbara Steele
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My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day…
— Satyajit Ray
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There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can…
— Terence Fisher
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I think of the medium as a people-to-people medium, not cameraman-to-people, not direction-to-people, not writers-to-people, but people-to-peopleYou can only involve…
— Frank Capra
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