If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.

- David Fincher

And I love shooting football.

- David Fincher

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

- David Fincher

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

- David Fincher

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

- David Fincher

I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.

- David Fincher

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

- David Fincher

Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.

- David Fincher

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

- David Fincher

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.

- David Fincher

I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.

- David Fincher

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

- David Fincher

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

- David Fincher

Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.

- David Fincher

Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.

- David Fincher

When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

- David Fincher

There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch.

- David Fincher

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

- David Fincher

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.

- David Fincher

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.

- David Fincher