David Fincher
David Andrew Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is an American film director. His films, mostly thrillers, have received 40 nominations at the Academy Awards, including three for him as Best Director. Born in Denver, Colorado, Fincher was interested in filmmaking at an early age. He directed numerous music videos, most notably Madonna's "Express Yourself" in 1989 and "Vogue" in 1990, both of which won him the MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction. He made his feature film debut with Alien 3
Defining films
In their own words
Films like Michelangelo Antonioni's 'Blow-Up' (1966) and Alan Pakula's 'The Parallax View' (1974) were big influences on me, in terms of creating that sense of paranoia and questioning reality.
Fincher cites Rear Window, Rosemary's Baby and The Tenant as films that inform Panic Room's subgenre.
I look at things like Rosemary's Baby, a movie that I really admire, and I think about the psychology that can be created just by the framing of the camera and the lens choice and the performance that can be coaxed from an actor.
It's certainly an antihero, but there's a nobility to him that I think in a weird way makes him similar to Alain Delon's character in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï.
