Quotes by David Fincher

David Fincher

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

Film

Made

Makers

Awards movies are normally sort of… life-affirming and noble. It’s probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don’t like it when you don’t lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

Awards

Guy

People

Directing ain’t about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn’t want to go to film school. I didn’t know what the point was. 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.

Education

Movie

School

Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.

Hands

Littles

Medicine

Every child is different. Every child responds in a different way.

Children

Different

Way

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.

Actors

Cameras

Psychology

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.

Movie

Stupid

Years

Hire the right people and get the hell out of the way.

Hell

People

Way

Hollywood is great. I also think it’s stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.

Hollywood

Stupid

Thinking

Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time.

Humans

Waste

Way

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Actors

Awards

Bad Day

Behavior

Believe

Book

Call Me

Cameras

Character

Children

Comedy

Commentary

Commercialism

Credit

Decisions You Make

Different

Don't Change

Done

Dvds

Education

Fans

Fighting

Film

Focus

Guy

Hands

Hate

Hell

Hollywood

Home

Humanity

Humans

Ideas

Impact

Knows

Letters

Light

Littles

Long

Long Ago

Luke

Made

Makers

Mean

Medicine

Mistake

Movie

My Own

Needs

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Quotes by David Fincher

David Fincher

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

Awards movies are normally sort of… life-affirming and noble. It’s probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don’t like it when you don’t lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.

Every child is different. Every child responds in a different way.

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.

Hire the right people and get the hell out of the way.

Hollywood is great. I also think it’s stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.

Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time.

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