David Fincher Quotes

I like characters who don’t change, who don’t learn from their mistakes.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

If I see a movie for the first time on DVD, I watch it all the way through, the lights are down, I don’t pick up the phone. The third or fourth time you see a movie, sometimes you just have them on and you check in every once in a while with things that you liked. I think it’s a different expectations from that environment.

I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.

If you read the good reviews you gotta read the bad reviews. I kind of think of it as like being a quarterback: you get way too much blame when it’s bad and way too much credit when it’s good.

Awards movies are normally sort of… life-affirming and noble. It’s probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don’t like it when you don’t lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

It’s a very American thing to hide away from death.

I like people that like to work the way that I like to work.

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.

I do agree you can’t just make movies three hours long for no apparent reason. For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that’s longer than most marriages.

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.

We live in a silly time, and people go to the movies to see something that they haven’t seen before, and you have to promise to show them that. In a horrible way, you have to promise them a special effect.