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David Fincher [1962-0] American

Rank: 102
Director

David Andrew Leo Fincher is 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 Button and the drama The Social Network.

Movies, Intelligence, Romantic

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The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.		101
My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.		102
In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.		103
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.		104
It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.		105
I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.	Intelligence	106
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.	Movies	107
When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.	Movies	108
Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.		109
You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.		110
Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.	Movies	111
If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.		112
I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.		113
Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.		114
Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.		115
Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.		116
I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.		117
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.	Movies	118
We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe.		119
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.		120
For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.	Romantic	121
I like studios. I just don't like bureaucracies.		122
How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.		123
Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.		124
I learn the most from making my own mistakes.		125
I like the idea of R-rated franchises.		126
I don't know how to depict intelligence.	Intelligence	201
A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.		202
You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.		203
I'm totally anti-commercialism.		204
I was a disinterested student.		205
You won't see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that's not who I am.		206
And I love shooting football.		207
Again, a franchise to me doesn't have to be a billion dollar title.		208
A lot of people hated 'Alien 3.'		209

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