David Fincher
David Fincher
David Andrew Leo Fincheris an American director and producer, notably for films, television series, and music videos. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for the romantic fantasy drama The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttonand the drama The Social Network. For the latter, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director and the BAFTA Award for Best Direction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth28 August 1962
CityDenver, CO
CountryUnited States of America
I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.
I do agree you can't just make movies three hours long for no apparent reason. For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.
Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.
What you learn from that first, and I don't call it 'trial by fire,' I call it 'baptism by fire,' is that you are going to have to take all of the responsibility, because basically when it gets right down to it, you are going to get all of the blame, so you might as well have made all of the decisions that led to people either liking it or disliking it. There's nothing worse than hearing somebody say 'Oh, you made that movie? I thought that movie sucked,' and you have to agree with them, you know?
Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.
I always say everyone was lucky enough to be in a Cate Blanchett movie.
Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.
I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.
I don't know how to depict intelligence.
If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.
In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.
I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.
Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.
I learn the most from making my own mistakes.