David Fincher

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1962 age 0

   Born

2. 1992 age 30

   CreditAlien 3director

3. 1995 age 33

   CreditSevendirector

4. 1997 age 35

   CreditThe Gamedirector

5. 1999 age 37

   CreditBeing John Malkovich

   CreditFight Clubdirector

6. 2002 age 40

   CreditPanic Roomdirector

7. 2007 age 45

   CreditZodiacdirector

8. 2008 age 46

   CreditThe Curious Case of Benjamin Buttondirector

9. 2010 age 48

   CreditThe Social Networkdirector

10. 2011 age 49

    CreditThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoodirector

11. 2014 age 52

    CreditGone Girldirector

12. 2020 age 58

    CreditMankdirector

    CreditMankproducer

13. 2023 age 61

    CreditThe Killerdirector

• CCCeán Chaffin10 titles
• KBKirk Baxter6 titles
• DBDonald Graham Burt6 titles
• BPBrad Pitt5 titles
• RARichmond Arquette5 titles
• TRTrent Reznor5 titles
• JCJeff Cronenweth4 titles
• ARAtticus Ross4 titles
• HSHoward Shore3 titles
• DSDavid Lee Smith3 titles

• Spouse

  • CCCeán Chaffin

• Parents

  • JFJack Fincher

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• A stylized version of our IKEA present. It is talking about very simple concepts. We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman is created.

  David Fincher, CC BY-SA 4.0

• We wanted a title sequence that started in the fear center of the brain. [When you hear] the sound of a gun being cocked that's in your mouth, the part of you brain that gets everything going, that realizes that you are fucked - we see all the thought processes, we see the synapses firing, we see the chemical electrical impulses that are the call to arms. And we wanted to sort of follow that out. Because the movie is about thought, it's about how this guy thinks. And it's from his point of view, solely. So I liked the idea of starting a movie from thought, from the beginning of the first fear impulse that went, Oh shit, I'm fucked, how did I get here?

  David Fincher, CC BY-SA 4.0

• You want to be able to provide something, and you're pissing down a fucking well. It will suck you dry and take everything you have and, like being a parent, you can pour as much love as you want, and your kid still says, "Just let me right out here, you don't have to take me all the way." You're working to make yourself obsolete. I'm not going to make Persona - my movies are fairly obvious in what the people want and what it is that's happening; it;s not that internalized. What's internalized is how you process the information from the singular, subjective point of view. And that becomes the subtext of it.

  David Fincher, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Film-making encompasses everything, from tricking people into investing in it, to putting on the show, to trying to distill down to moments in time, and ape reality but send this other message. It's got everything. When I was a kid I loved to draw, and I loved my electric football sets, and I painted little things and made sculptures and did matte painting and comic books and illustrated stuff, and took pictures, had a darkroom, loved to tape-record stuff. It's all of that. It's not having to grow up. It's four-dimensional chess, it's strategy, and it's being painfully honest, and unbelievably deceitful, and everything in between.

  David Fincher, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The movie is not that violent. There are ideas in the movie that are scary, but the film isn't about violence, the glorification of violence or the embracing of violence. In the movie, violence is a metaphor for feeling. It's a film about the problems or requirements involved with being masculine in today's society.

  David Fincher, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Violence shouldn't be presented as drama. I think people looking for an easy way out often write scenes where characters come into violent conflict as opposed to looking for the true drama in the situation. That's a shortcoming of a lot of films and television shows. I think certain presentations of violence are not immoral, but amoral.

  David Fincher, CC BY-SA 4.0