I want people to flourish. I want them to walk away from the experience going, "That's what it should be like."
David FincherI learned just to be a belligerent asshole, which was really: "You have to get what you need to get out of it." You have to fight for things you believe in, and you have to be smart about how you position it so that you don't just become white noise.
David FincherYou canโt take everything on. Thatโs why when people ask how does this film fit into my oeuvre. I say 'I donโt know. I donโt think in those termsโ. If I did, I might become incapacitated by fear . . . How do you eat a whale? One bite at a time. How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.
David FincherYouโll find that the movie business is paid for by those mega movies. The movie business is paid for by Big Macs. By movies as product. Movie studios use that term โproductโ all the time. Product? You mean you have a lot of stories? No, we have a lot of product. You have stories.
David Fincher