Quote

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

David Fincher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

David Fincher
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: May 10
Actor
Executive Producer
Film Director
Film Producer
Television Producer
Denver
Colorado
David Andrew Leo Fincher
Shoot
Movie
Actors
Time

More quotes by David Fincher

Image
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.
David Fincher
Image
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.
David Fincher
Image
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.
David Fincher
Image
You have the power to pause stuff and you have the power to go to the bathroom. You can do whatever you want in your own home. It's a much more relaxed thing. It's more like a book, it seems to me. That's kind of the way I watch movies.
David Fincher
Image
I always say everyone was lucky enough to be in a Cate Blanchett movie.
David Fincher
Image
People go to the movies to see things they haven’t seen before. Call me a radical.
David Fincher
Image
I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.
David Fincher
Image
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.
David Fincher
Image
A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.
David Fincher
Image
It's based not only on what it played like in the theater, but it's also knowing that certain things play differently in a home theater environment. You have different expectations when you're sitting with 700 people than when you're sitting with your friends or family. It's just a different world.
David Fincher
Image
I'm totally anti-commercialism.
David Fincher
Image
I learn the most from making my own mistakes.
David Fincher
Image
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.
David Fincher
Image
Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.
David Fincher
Image
My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.
David Fincher
Image
It's a very American thing to hide away from death.
David Fincher
Image
Sometimes people freak out when you shoot 40 takes of something. They start looking at you like, What did I do wrong?, and its like No. It's not wrong. It's just that we are going to try something different.
David Fincher
Image
When you go and you tell a studio and that it's an ensemble, that doesn't mean a lot to them. But, my hats off to Paramount and Warner Brothers, because when we told them that these were the kinds of people that we want to get, across the board, they were unbelieveably enthusiastic about it.
David Fincher
Image
I thought that the behavioral and some of the profiling stuff was interesting. The thing that I was most interested in, and the thing that we were really adament about, was let's get these guys who were there on tape, or in some kind of way, telling what happened. No one has really talked to them all.
David Fincher
Image
I have demons you can't even imagine.
David Fincher