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David Fincher Biography

David Andrew Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is 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 Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and The Social Network (2010). For the latter, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director and the BAFTA Award for Best Direction.

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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.

Gone, Ocean, Scar, Swimming

I think title sequences are an opportunity to sort of set the stage or to get people thinking in different terms than maybe whatever they understand the movie to be going in.

Opportunity, Thinking, People, Sort, Set

Awards movies are normally sort of. . . life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

Awards, Bad, Guy, Lead, Movies, People

I like the idea of R-rated franchises.

Franchises, Idea, Ideas, Like

If I see a movie for the first time on DVD, I watch it all the way through, the lights are down, I don't pick up the phone. The third or fourth time you see a movie, sometimes you just have them on and you check in every once in a while with things that you liked. I think it's a different expectations from that environment.

Expectations, Light, Phones, Thinking, Time, Watch

Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.

Decisions You Make, Film, Ownership, Good, Take, Hold

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

Commentary, Know, Knows, Think, Thinking

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.

Blame, Credit, Quarterback, Reviews, Thinking, Too Much

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.

Concern, Entirely, Humanity, Technology, Thinking, Wholly

I don't know how to depict intelligence.

Depict, Intelligence, Know, Know How, Knows

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.

Impact, Make, Movie, Needs, Serial, Serial Killer

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

Ideas, People, Professionalism, Idea, Obsessive

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.

Believe, Function, Mean, People

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.

Able, Actors, Enough, Focus, Forced, Play

I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.

Like, Sexiness, Subjective, Think, Thinking, Totally

We live in a silly time, and people go to the movies to see something that they haven't seen before, and you have to promise to show them that. In a horrible way, you have to promise them a special effect.

Silly, People, Promise, Way, Time

There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of.

Movie, Movies, Sick, Watch, Watches

Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.

Hands, Medicine, Littles, Come, Entertainment

And I love shooting football.

Football, Love, Shooting

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.

Apparent, Comedy, Long, Longer, Marriages, Three

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