David Fincher Quotes

Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and follow them through the movie, that is not what moviemaking is, that is not what it’s about. It’s not just about getting a performance. It’s also about the psychology of the cinematic moment, and the psychology of the presentation of that, of that window.

~ David Fincher

I think intelligence is totally subjective it's like sexiness.

~ David Fincher

I don't know how to depict intelligence.

~ David Fincher

Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.

~ David Fincher

There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch.

~ David Fincher

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

~ David Fincher

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.

~ David Fincher

When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

~ David Fincher

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

~ David Fincher