Quotes by David Fincher

About David Fincher:

David Andrew Leo Fincher is an American film director, film producer, television director, television producer, and music video director. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for the romantic fantasy drama The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and the drama The Social Network (2010). For the latter, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director and the BAFTA Award for Best Direction.
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I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.

David Fincher

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

David Fincher

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.

David Fincher

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 s...

David Fincher

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

David Fincher

I don't know how to depict intelligence.

David Fincher

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

David Fincher

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.

David Fincher

And I love shooting football.

David Fincher

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...

David Fincher

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 Fincher

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

David Fincher

I was a disinterested student.

David Fincher

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

David Fincher

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

David Fincher

I learn the most from making my own mistakes.

David Fincher

I like the idea of R-rated franchises.

David Fincher

Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.

David Fincher

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

David Fincher

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

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Author Bio

  • NameDavid Fincher
  • DescriptionAmerican film director
  • AliasesDavid Andrew Leo Fincher
  • BornAugust 28, 1962
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Actor; Film Producer
  • AwardsPrimetime Emmy Award