Quotes By David Fincher

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

Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.

How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

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

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.

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.

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

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

I like the idea of R-rated franchises.

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.

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.

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

And I love shooting football.

I learn the most from making my own mistakes.

When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.

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.

It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.

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

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.

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

Again, a franchise to me doesn't have to be a billion dollar title.

I was a disinterested student.

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

I don't know how to depict intelligence.

Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.

I like studios. I just don't like bureaucracies.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

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.