A biography for David Fincherhasn’t been written yet.
“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 can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.”
“Again, a franchise to me doesn't have to be a billion dollar title.”
“I like the idea of R-rated franchises.”
“For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.”
“In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.”
“Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.”
“I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.”
“And I love shooting football.”
“How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.”
“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.”
“My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.”
“If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.”
“You won't see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that's not who I am.”
“I learn the most from making my own mistakes.”
“When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.”
“A lot of people hated 'Alien 3.'”
“Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.”
“You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.”
“I'm totally anti-commercialism.”