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You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.
The Curious Case of David Fincher (2007)
I tend to over-intellectualize things, to come at them from a structural point.
A Talk With David Fincher (1999)
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.
The Curious Case of David Fincher (2007)
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.
The Curious Case of David Fincher (2007)
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.
A Talk With David Fincher (1999)
I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.
The Curious Case of David Fincher (2007)
Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted. I'm sure there are people who get into movies so they can get nice tables at restaurants.
The Curious Case of David Fincher (2007)
For me, the scariest thing about a serial killer is that there's somebody who lives next door to you, running power tools late into the night, and you don't know he has a refrigerator full of penises.
The Curious Case of David Fincher (2007)
I find it amoral if you're making a movie where the problem is solved with a guy standing in the back of pickup truck firing a machine at the bad guys. The morality of it is questionable because the repercussions of violence are incredibly far-reaching.
Fightin Words (1999)
I thought it was so strange because I normally make these pitch-black studies of misanthropes or the occasional movie about serial killers, sowhat could the possibly see in this material for me.
You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.
A Talk With David Fincher (1999)
You can either look at your career as the things you're going to leave behind, and they have to be executed flawlessly and you have to know exactly what it is that you're doing. Or you can be realistic about the fact that you're going to learn as you practice what you do.
The Curious Case of David Fincher (2007)