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David Fincher Inspirational Quotes (44)

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It's a very American thing to hide away from death.
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People go to the movies to see things they haven’t seen before. Call me a radical.
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Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.
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You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better and want to ape the success.
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Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.
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I'm totally anti-commercialism.
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And I love shooting football.
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I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself, a wholly human concern.
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The thing is, that great actors are everywhere. They're everywhere. They're doing good parts on television. They're doing television commercials. They're doing local theater. There are so few opportunities.
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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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I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.
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In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.
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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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You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.
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Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time.
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You’ll find that the movie business is paid for by those mega movies. The movie business is paid for by Big Macs. By movies as product. Movie studios use that term “product” all the time. Product? You mean you have a lot of stories? No, we have a lot of product. You have stories.
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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.
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People always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and Paramount.
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Look, it's nice. I like the fact that critics liked this movie, but most of the movies that I've made, you'll find a handful of people that love it and more than a few other handfuls of people hate it. If I was invested in that, I would've given up long ago.
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How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.
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There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of.
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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.
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A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.
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I learned just to be a belligerent asshole, which was really: You have to get what you need to get out of it. You have to fight for things you believe in, and you have to be smart about how you position it so that you don't just become white noise.
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