David Fincher Quotes

• You won’t see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that’s not who I am.

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• I like studios. I just don’t like bureaucracies.

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• I was a disinterested student.

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• My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people’s idea of obsessive.

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• For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that’s longer than most marriages.

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• I’m totally anti-commercialism.

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• 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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• You know, I don’t think I’ve ever listened to someone’s commentary. Ever.

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• When I’m watching somebody act, it’s a behavior editorial function – I look at someone act, and I might say, ‘I don’t believe him when he says that.’ I don’t know why I don’t believe him, probably because the people that I’ve met, they don’t act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.

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• You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.

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• We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn’t going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• For a number of years, I’d been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I’d always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

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David Fincher (34)

Birth:	28th August, 1962
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Director, Producer

About

David Andrew Leo Fincher was born in Denver, Colorado. He is an American director and producer. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for the romantic fantasy drama The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and the drama The Social Network. For the latter, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director and the BAFTA Award for Best Direction. He was employed at Korty Films as a production assistant. He moved up the ranks and became a visual-effects producer and worked on the animated Twice Upon a Time.

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