Quotes By David Fincher

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.

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

I like the idea of R-rated franchises.

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.

And I love shooting football.

I learn the most from making my own mistakes.

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.

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.

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 was a disinterested student.

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

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

Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.

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.

I'm totally anti-commercialism.

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.

I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.

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.

If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.

A lot of people hated 'Alien 3.'