131 Quotes by David Fincher

I have demons you can’t even imagine.

You know, I don’t think I’ve ever listened to someone’s commentary. Ever.

I think intelligence is totally subjective; it’s like sexiness.

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.

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.

People always ask why I don’t make independent movies. I do make independent movies – I just make them at Sony and Paramount.

When I’m watching somebody act, it’s a behavior editorial function – I look at someone act, and I might say, ‘I don’t believe him when he says that.’ I don’t know why I don’t believe him, probably because the people that I’ve met, they don’t act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.

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.

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.