DAVID FINCHER

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

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

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

I learn the most from making my own mistakes.

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

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

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.

I was a disinterested student.

You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them. You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.

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

Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time.

For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

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

I like studios. I just don't like bureaucracies.

A lot of people hated 'Alien 3.'

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

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

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

Again, a franchise to me doesn't have to be a billion dollar title.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

You won't see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that's not who I am.

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

We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe.

I like the idea of R-rated franchises.

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