131 Quotes by David Fincher

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

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.

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

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the filmmakers. I think that The Game is a movie and I think Fight Club's a film. I think that Fight Club is more than the sum of its parts, whereas Panic Room is the sum of its parts. I didn't look at Panic Room and think: Wow, this is gonna set the world on fire. These are footnote movies, guilty pleasure movies. Thrillers. Woman-trapped-in-a-house movies. They're not particularly important.

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

Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.

I learn the most from making my own mistakes.

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

I always feel ill-prepared for commentaries and it had been so long I was afraid I'd forget everything that happened on the film.