“I've read a number of dissertations where people take the movie to task for, well if you're making a cautionary tale, then Fincher misses the side of the barn.
Because he doesn't understand that he's made Tyler Durden so attractive. I mean, that's an absurd point.
I'm making a movie where Edward Norton has to find Tyler Durden extremely attractive.
He has to give up everything to move to this miserable part of town, and live in a hovel, and give over his life to his guru.
So the notion that you would draw a frame around it and say, watch out everybody...
It's not a cautionary tale. It's not Requiem for a Dream. It’s not Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic.
It's about a guy who gets seduced into a way of life. Granted, 90 minutes later it does not work for him in many many many ways, and continues to not work for him in ways he could never have imagined.
So from my standpoint, the idea that you're supposed to provide the audience with some sort of like, look out, don't find this in any way amusing or seductive!
It seems anti the story. It’s stupid and reductive.”
Source: Clique x David Fincher, réalisateur culte de Fight Club et Seven - CANAL+