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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

About the film, Zodiac
The Curious Case of David Fincher (2007)

“There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch.”

David Fincher

A Talk With David Fincher (1999)

“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

The Curious Case of David Fincher (2007)

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

David Fincher

A Talk With David Fincher (1999)

“As much as people pretend 'I fit in, I understand, I get the rules,' there are always times spent away from that where you go, 'I thought I knew. It seemed so clear to me, and then…' That sense of loneliness, or the sense of not fitting in or being out of depth, is probably the most common denominator.”

David Fincher

The Curious Case of David Fincher (2007)

“The movie is not that violent. There are ideas in the movie that are scary, but the film isn't about violence, the glorification of violence or the embracing of violence. In the movie, violence is a metaphor for feeling. It's a film about the problems or requirements involved with being masculine in today's society.”

David Fincher

Fightin Words (1999)

David Fincher Quotes about people

“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.”

David Fincher

The Curious Case of David Fincher (2007)

“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. I don't make those kinds of movies. That, to me, is a lie. Everything's not okay.”

David Fincher

The Curious Case of David Fincher (2007)

“Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted. I'm sure there are people who get into movies so they can get nice tables at restaurants.”

David Fincher

The Curious Case of David Fincher (2007)

“Violence shouldn't be presented as drama. I think people looking for an easy way out often write scenes where characters come into violent conflict as opposed to looking for the true drama in the situation. That's a shortcoming of a lot of films and television shows. I think certain presentations of violence are not immoral, but amoral.”

David Fincher

Fightin Words (1999)

“Film-making encompasses everything, from tricking people into investing in it, to putting on the show, to trying to distill down to moments in time, and ape reality but send this other message. It's got everything. When I was a kid I loved to draw, and I loved my electric football sets, and I painted little things and made sculptures and did matte painting and comic books and illustrated stuff, and took pictures, had a darkroom, loved to tape-record stuff. It's all of that. It's not having to grow up. It's four-dimensional chess, it's strategy, and it's being painfully honest, and unbelievably deceitful, and everything in between.”

David Fincher

Gavin Smith goes one-on-one with David Fincher (1999)

David Fincher Quotes

“I find it amoral if you're making a movie where the problem is solved with a guy standing in the back of pickup truck firing a machine at the bad guys. The morality of it is questionable because the repercussions of violence are incredibly far-reaching.”

David Fincher

Fightin Words (1999)

“You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.”

David Fincher

The Curious Case of David Fincher (2007)

“You can either look at your career as the things you're going to leave behind, and they have to be executed flawlessly and you have to know exactly what it is that you're doing. Or you can be realistic about the fact that you're going to learn as you practice what you do.”

David Fincher

About the film, The Social Network
The Curious Case of David Fincher (2007)

“I thought it was so strange because I normally make these pitch-black studies of misanthropes or the occasional movie about serial killers, sowhat could the possibly see in this material for me.”

David Fincher

2011 Golden Globe Award Ceremony (2011)

“I do like movies that take a toll on the audience. I want to work the subconscious. I want to involve you in ways in which you might not necessarily want to get involved. I want to play off those things that you're expecting to get when the lights go down and the 20th Century Fox logo comes up. There's an audience expectation and I'm interested in how movies play with--and off--that expectation. That's what I'm interested in.”

David Fincher

Fightin Words (1999)

“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.”

David Fincher

A Talk With David Fincher (1999)

“A stylized version of our IKEA present. It is talking about very simple concepts. We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman is created.”

David Fincher

About Fight Club
Gavin Smith goes one-on-one with David Fincher (1999)

“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

The Curious Case of David Fincher (2007)

“Thank you to the stellar collection of photographers, designers, editors, musicians, costumers, painters, researchers, electricians and craftspeople who without whom I'd just be a bitter man with a lot of opinions”

David Fincher

2011 Golden Globe Award Ceremony (2011)

“I always feel ill-prepared for commentaries and it had been so long I was afraid I'd forget everything that happened on the film. But having everybody come together for it was really great. It was like a high school reunion. We all reminisced and just had a great time.”

David Fincher

A Talk With David Fincher (1999)

“I tend to over-intellectualize things, to come at them from a structural point.”

David Fincher

A Talk With David Fincher (1999)

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