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David Fincher

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

David Fincher

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David Fincher is saying that although he spent time with people who fund and negotiate movie projects, he mistakenly believed they all cared about making the best films possible. He realized that this assumption was unrealistic because their main focus is often on business and profit, not purely on quality.

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