Quotes from David Fincher

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

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.

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

A lot of people hated 'Alien 3.'

Again, a franchise to me doesn't have to be a billion dollar title.

I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again.

For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

I'm totally anti-commercialism.

If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.

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.

Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.

I don't know how to depict intelligence.

You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.

And I love shooting football.

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.

I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.

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.

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

I like people that like to work the way that I like to work.

I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.

I was a disinterested student.

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