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A movie is made for an audienc...

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the filmmakers. I think that The Game is a movie and I think Fight Club's a film. I think that Fight Club is more than the sum of its parts, whereas Panic Room is the sum of its parts. I didn't look at Panic Room and think: Wow, this is gonna set the world on fire. These are footnote movies, guilty pleasure movies. Thrillers. Woman-trapped-in-a-house movies. They're not particularly important.

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You can't take everything on. ...

You can't take everything on. That's why when people ask how does this film fit into my oeuvre. I say 'I don't know. I don't think in those terms'. 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.

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I don't have the Tom Hanks fan...

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

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Filmmaking isn't if you can ju...

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.

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I want to make a movie that ha...

I want to make a movie that has enough impact that it's going to do what it needs to do. But I don't want to make a film that serial killers masturbate to.

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You have a responsibility for ...

You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.

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For me, the scariest thing abo...

For me, the scariest thing about a serial killer is that there's somebody who lives next door to you, running power tools late into the night, and you don't know he has a refrigerator full of penises.

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Entertainment has to come hand...

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.

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The thing I always say to any ...

The thing I always say to any writer that I'm working with is: Just make sure that in any argument, EVERYONE is right. I want every single person arguing a righteous side of the argument. That makes interesting drama.

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You know, I don't think I've e...

You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.

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I do agree you can't just make...

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.

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I don't think that digital tec...

I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself, a wholly human concern.

David Fincher 84 quotes

How do you shoot a 150-day mov...

How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

David Fincher 84 quotes

A movie is made for an audienc...

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

David Fincher 84 quotes

I want stuff to play as wide a...

I want stuff to play as wide as possible. I want to be able to see... if I could play the whole thing in a master and it could be compelling enough, that'd be great. Then it simplifies my day, it simplifies life for the actors when you could just focus on that. But by the same token I don't want to be forced into coverage. So I want it to be as good from every angle and I need to get as many of the kind of shadings that I want from every angle.

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I've never been to Harvard, I'...

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

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If you read the good reviews y...

If you read the good reviews you gotta read the bad reviews. I kind of think of it as like being a quarterback: you get way too much blame when it's bad and way too much credit when it's good.

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Everything seems really simple...

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

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It's a very American thing to ...

It's a very American thing to hide away from death.

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It's a bad day when you don't ...

It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.

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