It[The movie The Graduate] was talking about that moment in time when you have this world of possibilities, all these expectations, and you don’t know who it is you’re supposed to be.  And you choose this one path, Mrs. Robinson, and it turns out to be bleak, but it’s part of your initiation, your trial by fire.  And then, by choosing the wrong path, you find your way onto the right path, but you’ve created this mess.  Fight Club is the Nineties inverse of that:  a guy who does not have a world of possibilities in front of him, he has no possibilities, he literally cannot imagine a way to change his life.  ~David Fincher, director of Fight Club, interview with Gavin Smith, "Inside Out," Film Comment, Sep/Oct 1999