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" 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. "

David Fincher

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was a disinterested student. "

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Disinterested

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I like the idea of R-rated franchises. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" A lot of people hated 'Alien 3.' "

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

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People

" I learn the most from making my own mistakes. "