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It's a very American thing to hide away from death.

David Fincher

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David Fincher
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: May 10
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Executive Producer
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David Andrew Leo Fincher
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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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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.
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You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.
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I have great appreciation for people who do anything well. I think that it's very difficult to do what you do well.
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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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Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.
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If you read the good reviews you gotta read the bad reviews. I kind of think of it as like being a quarterback: you get way too much blame when it's bad and way too much credit when it's good.
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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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