David Fincher
David Fincher
David Andrew Leo Fincheris an American director and producer, notably for films, television series, and music videos. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for the romantic fantasy drama The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttonand the drama The Social Network. For the latter, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director and the BAFTA Award for Best Direction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth28 August 1962
CityDenver, CO
CountryUnited States of America
I want to make a movie that has enough impact that it's going to do what it needs to do. But I don't want to make a film that serial killers masturbate to.
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.
I was always interested in films that scar.
How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.
I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.
I have demons you can't even imagine.
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.
You can’t take everything on. That’s why when people ask how does this film fit into my oeuvre. I say 'I don’t know. I don’t think in those terms’. If I did, I might become incapacitated by fear . . . How do you eat a whale? One bite at a time. How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.
I'm totally anti-commercialism.
In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.
Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.
Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.
If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.
I learn the most from making my own mistakes.