You have the power to pause stuff and you have the power to go to the bathroom. You can do whatever you want in your own home. It's a much more relaxed thing. It's more like a book, it seems to me. That's kind of the way I watch movies. David Fincher More Quotes by David Fincher More Quotes From David Fincher 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. David Fincher focus want play 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 bad-day done needs Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time. David Fincher waste humans way 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? David Fincher responsibility fire people 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. David Fincher silly people promise Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that. David Fincher finished abandoned Hire the right people and get the hell out of the way. David Fincher hell people way You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever. David Fincher commentary knows thinking I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like. David Fincher dorms life-is-like college 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. David Fincher opportunity people thinking I want people to flourish. I want them to walk away from the experience going, "That's what it should be like." David Fincher should want people 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. David Fincher comedy three long People always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and Paramount. David Fincher sony independent people Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted. David Fincher hollywood stupid thinking I want people to surprise themselves. Instead of saying "Oh, god, didn't we already do this 17 times?" David Fincher surprise want people I have demons you can't even imagine. David Fincher demon imagine Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine. David Fincher medicine littles hands Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad. David Fincher ownership decisions-you-make film 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. David Fincher phones light thinking Look, it's nice. I like the fact that critics liked this movie, but most of the movies that I've made, you'll find a handful of people that love it and more than a few other handfuls of people hate it. If I was invested in that, I would've given up long ago. David Fincher long-ago nice hate
