David Fincher Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school. I didn't know what the point was. 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.”
-- David FincherSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time.”
-- David FincherSource : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 27, 2010.
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“A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the filmmakers. I think that The Game is a movie and I think Fight Club's a film. I think that Fight Club is more than the sum of its parts, whereas Panic Room is the sum of its parts. I didn't look at Panic Room and think: Wow, this is gonna set the world on fire. These are footnote movies, guilty pleasure movies. Thrillers. Woman-trapped-in-a-house movies. They're not particularly important.”
-- David FincherSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The simple-minded always look for something - if it's not pornography, it's DVDs or the Internet or video games - but I don't think there's anything inherently evil about Facebook.”
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“Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.”
-- David FincherSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I like people that like to work the way that I like to work.”
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“My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.”
-- David FincherSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Sometimes people freak out when you shoot 40 takes of something. They start looking at you like, "What did I do wrong?", and its like "No. It's not wrong. It's just that we are going to try something different."”
-- David FincherSource : Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 19, 2011.
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“The thing I always say to any writer that I'm working with is: Just make sure that in any argument, EVERYONE is right. I want every single person arguing a righteous side of the argument. That makes interesting drama.”
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“I think title sequences are an opportunity to sort of set the stage or to get people thinking in different terms than maybe whatever they understand the movie to be going in.”
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“When you cast somebody you cast them not only for... I look for an inherent kind of quality. You are going to be shooting 14 hour days and you are going to be tired. You are going to not necessarily be able to conjure armor or a façade every single moment.”
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“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.”
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“You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.”
-- David FincherSource : "The Curious Case of David Fincher". Interview with Brian Mockenhaupt, www.esquire.com. March 1, 2007.
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“Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and follow them through the movie, that is not what moviemaking is, that is not what it’s about. It’s not just about getting a performance. It’s also about the psychology of the cinematic moment, and the psychology of the presentation of that, of that window.”
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“I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.”
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“You can’t take everything on. That’s why when people ask how does this film fit into my oeuvre. I say 'I don’t know. I don’t think in those terms’. If I did, I might become incapacitated by fear . . . How do you eat a whale? One bite at a time. How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.”
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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 ***** to.”
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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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“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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“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.”
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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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“If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.”
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“I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.”
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“I learn the most from making my own mistakes.”
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“I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.”
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