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.
David FincherI want people to surprise themselves. Instead of saying "Oh, god, didn't we already do this 17 times?"
David FincherWe live in a silly time, and people go to the movies to see something that they haven't seen before, and you have to promise to show them that. In a horrible way, you have to promise them a special effect.
David FincherPeople always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and Paramount.
David FincherIf I see a movie for the first time on DVD, I watch it all the way through, the lights are down, I don't pick up the phone. The third or fourth time you see a movie, sometimes you just have them on and you check in every once in a while with things that you liked. I think it's a different expectations from that environment.
David Fincher