David Andrew Leo Fincher
28 August 1962
An American director and producer.
It's remarkable that George Lucas was one of his neighbors when Fincher was two years old. Inspired by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Fincher began making movies at age eight with an 8mm camera. During high school, he worked on plays and design sets and lighting. He was also a non-union projectionist at a second-run movie theater, production assistant at the local television news station KOBI in Medford, Oregon.
- Alien 3 (1992)
- Seven (1995)
- The Game (1997)
- Fight Club (1999)
- The Hire (2001)
- Panic Room (2002)
- Lords of Dogtown (2005)
- Love and Other Disasters (2006)
- Zodiac (2007)
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
- The Social Network (2010)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
- House of Cards (2 episodes)
- Gone Girl (2014)
- Mindhunter (2017)
Quotations
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My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.
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It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.
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How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.
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I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.
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In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.
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A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.
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Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.
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I learn the most from making my own mistakes.
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The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.
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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.
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For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.
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I don't know how to depict intelligence.
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I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.
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I like studios. I just don't like bureaucracies.
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I like the idea of R-rated franchises.
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If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.
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Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.
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When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.
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Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time.
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There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch.
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Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.
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When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.
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I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.
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I was a disinterested student.
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I'm totally anti-commercialism.
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Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.
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You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.
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Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.
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You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.
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