David Fincher Quotes

I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.

Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine. Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies. That, to me, is a lie. Everything's not okay.

I want people to flourish. I want them to walk away from the experience going, "That's what it should be like."

I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

People always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and Paramount.

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.

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.