We’ve been rewarded with a few great conversations with David Fincher thanks to the press tour for Gone Girl, and now yet another one has arrived. Conducted back in September, but now online for the first time, the director flew to London to participate in BAFTA’s A Life in Pictures conversation. Clocking in at nearly 25 minutes (seemingly cut down, though), he opens up about his early career before going through notable aspects of his features, leading up to his adaptation of Gillian Flynn‘s best-seller.
Fincher discusses his 1.5-year rise from cleaning garbage cans to becoming the head of visuals effects in his first job, starting his own music video company (one that would become the biggest in Hollywood at the time), making a multitude of errors on the set of Alien 3, and much more. When it comes to his mindset, Fincher also says, “I never wanted to be the guy victimized by other people’s laziness,” adding that he wanted to know what every “motherf*cker” in the room was doing while on set.
Check out highlights of the conversation below and the full, non-embeddable one, over at BAFTA. As a bonus, watch a recent Q&A with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
What did you take away from the conversation?