131 Quotes by David Fincher

We’re designed to be hunters and we’re in a society of shopping. There’s nothing to kill anymore, there’s nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman is created.

Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine. Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything’s okay. I don’t make those kinds of movies. That, to me, is a lie. Everything’s not okay.

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.

The simple-minded always look for something – if it’s not pornography, it’s DVDs or the Internet or video games – but I don’t think there’s anything inherently evil about Facebook.

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.

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.

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.

I want people to surprise themselves. Instead of saying “Oh, god, didn’t we already do this 17 times?”