David Fincher: Making

David Fincher is American film director. Explore interesting quotes on making.

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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.”

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

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

The Curious Case of David Fincher (2007)

“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.”

Fightin Words (1999)

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

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.”

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.”

2011 Golden Globe Award Ceremony (2011)

“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.”

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