"The players in this business dont view this as being just about making money and getting a table at the Golden Globes. For everyone who truly cares, I think, theres a desire to be culturally important on some level. Its not like anybody involved with Zodiac went in saying, Dont you get it? Theres going to be 180,000 close-ups of different parts of this file. People are going to flock to it! Everybody knew what the issues were going to be, and in spite of that, they wanted to make the movie. The goal here was to make an interesting movie, and I do think that movies are... five years from now is more important than five months from now, in my humble opinion. Ill trade the opening weekend for a movie that can stand scrutiny five or ten years down the road" (David Fincher).

Foundas with Fincher (LA Weekly).