How David Fincher Directs a Movie...

"When you set out to make a movie, it doesn't happen exactly the way you have it in your head. There is this exploration, there is this evolution, there's this unfolding or revealing of the material depending on what you need from them, what side of the room you're on, what you're looking at. You need everybody to peak at the same time: boom operator has to be dolly grip has to peak, camera operator has to peak, actors have to peak. You're trying to get everybody to be on the same page, everybody to be in the same movie, everybody to be in the same moment. And that's a lot of work. That's what you're doing, you're sculpting behavior over time, and you're given a very, very finite amount of patience that the audience has for you to get those ideas across." - David Fincher.