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 loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.
I was a disinterested student.
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 to depict intelligence.
I like the idea of R-rated franchises.
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.
There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of.
And I love shooting football.
Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.
I always say everyone was lucky enough to be in a Cate Blanchett movie.
Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.
It's a very American thing to hide away from death.
What you learn from that first, and I don't call it 'trial by fire,' I call it 'baptism by fire,' is that you are going to have to take all of the responsibility, because basically when it gets right down to it, you are going to get all of the blame, so you might as well have made all of the decisions that led to people either liking it or disliking it. There's nothing worse than hearing somebody say 'Oh, you made that movie? I thought that movie sucked,' and you have to agree with them, you know?
Hire the right people and get the hell out of the way.