“It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.” Quote by Donal Logue
“Follow your deepest dream, the one you had as a kidbut stay focused.” DreamFocusedStay Focused Author:Donal Logue
“I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again.” KnowsShouldKnow HowGoneOceanSwimmingScarThings I Love Author:David Fincher
“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.” KnowsWantLittlesTwoFactsSchoolFilmEducationPracticeSunFiveDirectorsShotsDrawingSettingSettingsFilmmakerMovieFilmmakingNeatFilm SchoolCameramanFilm Crew Author:David Fincher
“You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better and want to ape the success.” PeopleKnowsWantCan DoLinesWalksApesCan Do Something Author:David Fincher
“Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.” IfsFirstsHomeWalksSeeingCarShoesEightBuyingSecondsBuyers Author:Barbara Corcoran
“A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers. 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.” ThinkingWorldLooksMadeImportantFilmFightingGamesHousePleasureRoomsAudienceFireClubsGuiltyFilmmakerWowPanicTrappedThrillersFootnotesGuilty Pleasure Author:David Fincher
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsDoeMightFilmAsksTermFitOne DayBitesWhalesOne Day At A Time Author:David Fincher
“I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.” PeopleKindFansLettersToms Author:David Fincher
“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.” IfsMomentsFacesActorsPsychologyWindowPerformancesCamerasFilmmakingPresentationCinematic Author:David Fincher