David Fincher's career in his own words | Filmmakers in Focus

This video was brought to you by mu B, a one-of-a-kind streaming service with handpicked movie classics from around the world. Get your first month free on radar wwe.com When you were a little kid, what did you do? what do you want to be when you grow up and see a movie director I was 8 years old I left the Rafael theater on 4th street in San Rafael and I just saw what guys at Sundance Kid and I came out Oh my God, my dad 65 Impala I told him, what You thought, he loved the movie and I told him it was amazing, he said, so what do you think about it?

Do you know what he did? I said, I want to make movies, this is Marin County, the bay area of ​​Santa Telmo County, Marin in San Francisco. you're talking about thanks 1138 it was done at the Riddick County Civic Center the best man was Shawn in Shady Lane and the Ross invasion the Body Snatchers are the conversation candidate I mean, everyone on my block wants to be a liability I mean , George Lucas was my neighbor, so it's like you were going to sign me up, no, you know, because I was leaving movies since I was 8 years old.

I made super 8 movies and you know the dominoes were starting to fall for me. a bridge on the shoulders you take and and and how it is woven you know a scene together When I entered high school I worked after school directing plays and lighting plays and then at night from 6:00 until midnight 1 :00 in the morning I was a projectionist I saw all that jazz 200 times I saw 1941 200 times so it was whatever was there that was interesting I just saw it what was your first opportunity what was your first Moment of luck that led you to the path you want to be on.

I worked in a dark room. I began working for John Cordy, a local filmmaker who was part of the original Omnizoetrope triumvirate, as were Francis Coppola, George Lucas, and John Cordy. I just finished high school and attended a sort of summer school film program. A friend of mine who had been through this program had gotten a job working for Cordy and was looking forward to the darkroom. My name is really, really. It was very technical, like photographic material, and I liked it, you know, it was fun. The guy did a lot of that in high school, so I did it for about six months, seven months and then I moved to the Animation Department, mostly just boxes, bapa beyond that. that the newer I worked in a hallway, Amber, yeah, I got a job with my roommate, I worked on a camera system, the math department in the hallway and I was helping out, the VFX department was run by a guy I worked for in the darkroom.

I mean, he had the idea that there was a sequence in the movie where the characters had to fly through live-action traffic, so I had the idea that he would take Steadicam and try to gyro-stabilize it or something and he could make this flying saucer. and I could shoot this at three, four, five frames per second, so I was trying to rent the equipment in San Francisco, so I called my friend who worked in the math department and said, you know, we'll find out. when will they finish because I want to write because I have the idea of ​​doing this with altered Steadicam things, he said he, I told you about that, I said no one, I just had an idea, I needed to sell music.

I'm not talking to you, I have to call you again. I got a call about an hour later and it's Dennis Muren and Dennis Muren Rozsival who don't do the underpants thing with the steadicams down and I said why do I know so they were working on the speeder bikes. or Return of the Jedi and they were working on the same thing at the same time, so I got on their radar so well that they had an opening and I got a call and Craig recommended me and said, "You know you should talk." to Dennis Muren about this and you could come and I was a meter jockey that just shot green, you know, blue screen logging chickens, chickens and I got to work with my heroes at the time, you know, I got to work with Phil Tippett and Tom Santa.

Mon Joe Johnson, Dennis Meredith and I came to Los Angeles hoping to make movies, but to make television commercials, I worked on the weekends and I did it with some friends of mine. We sold an idea to the American Cancer Society that had a fetus smoking a cigarette. in the womb, would you give a child born from cigarettes what we do every time you smoke while pregnant, which we thought was funny? An enema that I had, you know, it didn't seem like $8,000 to me, that made me, I had been banned on three networks, so all of a sudden I said interesting people and I made a music video and I came to Los Angeles to make music videos and I did it for a while, but the idea of ​​music videos for me was like, you know, in film school, it's like someone was I was going to get paid to play and I went to the biggest music video companies at that time and the biggest was Spotlight.

I had an agent and I passed them off as my real length: Simon Fields, who wrote a note to the agent saying, "This guy." He has no talent, we have no interest and at that moment I vowed to dance in the ruins of blind life and signed with a business director. I was hired by the music video division and we were relegated to the background with the cleaning staff. There they ignored us, they humiliated us and the four directors, three more directors and I, had decided to start our own company and that was propaganda. We went from billing together about two and a half million dollars a year and three years later we were billing sixty-five and seventy-five million. of dollars a year and we had the largest commercial music video company in Holland and when the first movie came, yes, Alien 3, what was the problem?

There's no problem with, you know, $65 million more the first time. I made a crucial mistake. I heard from people who paid for the movie and basically that translates to meeting a lot of people who will resent you and your age and won't want to take instructions from you. and allow them to tell you what you can't do, so yes, I naively signed up and went to a pine forest to be ritually sodomized for the Jews. Yeah, so I kind of retired into doing TV commercials and I had no expectations that I would do it. Will I ever be employable again and I received a They sent me a script and it was seven I received two John Doe walks into the police station he turns himself in and I was holding the script like I knew how many pages were left It was like that, but it goes against the rules, so I called my agent and said this is the end of the head in the box, it's amazing and I went out and started meeting the cast.

I was driving my car back to the office and I got a call saying Brad wants to do it, I called Morgan for a minute, he said I would love to do this and we did it, we missed seven bits, captain, gluttony, greed, laziness, anger , pride, lust and, in fact, I took a memory almost and the heart came out of hell, except for life. Enter the man who has everything and is behind this. It's not me and if he certainly wasn't getting anything out, he laughs. It was Shane, I'm coming back. At some point someone in the family murdered over the last 40 years has been trying to drive me crazy.

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