“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)

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American film director 1962

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