It's a very American thing to hide away from death.

- David Fincher

Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time.

- David Fincher

People will say, 'There are a million ways to shoot a scene,' but I don't think so. I think there are two, maybe. And the other one is wrong.

- David Fincher

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 …

- David Fincher

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 s…

- David Fincher

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

- David Fincher

Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine. Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't mak…

- David Fincher

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

- 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…

- David Fincher