“Directors don’t make pictures, directors make things that you are supposed to get an emotional hit off of. You’re supposed to feel something. It’s behavior, it’s color, it’s the quality of light, it’s the setting, it’s the speed at which it moves–all of things that go into making it a visceral response.”
Director David Fincher (The Social Network, Se7en, Fight Club)
Interview at the 2010 New York Film Festival
P.S. A couple of days ago Scott Myers at Go Into The Story wrote a post about the farm where they shot The Field of Dreams being recently sold. He wrote about the emotional response he witnessed when he first saw the film in 1989 and touches on why 20+ years later people still flock to Iowa to see the field of dreams. And, somewhat echoing Fincher’s thoughts above, he quoted Sinclair Lewis, “People read fiction for emotion…not information.”
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