Love Quote by David Fincher

There is something almost aggressively ordinary about Fincher admitting he "loves DVDs" and casually defining "a couple of hundred" as not extensive. That understatement is the tell. Coming from a director synonymous with obsessive control, this is less about plastic discs than about curating an environment where images are always available, always on, always doing work.

The key line is the last one: "I have something on almost all the time". It reads like a lifestyle confession, but the subtext is professional. For Fincher, cinema isn't a special event; it's oxygen, background radiation. That mindset tracks with his reputation for precision: the world is a feed of references, rhythms, and mistakes to study. DVDs (especially in the era when he was saying this) represent ownership and repeatability. Streaming is passive; physical media is deliberate. You can rewatch a scene until you understand why it lands, why it doesn't, how the cut manipulates you.

There's also a quiet cultural timestamp here. DVDs were the middle class cinephile's toolbox: director commentaries, deleted scenes, a sense of proximity to the craft. Fincher frames his consumption as constant not because he's trying to sound cool, but because he's describing a feedback loop. Watch enough, long enough, and taste becomes muscle memory. The irony is that the man known for constructing meticulous worlds is also admitting he lives inside other people's, nonstop.