David Fincher

David Fincher was born in Denver in 1962 and grew up in San Anselmo, near San Francisco, where George Lucas was one of his neighbours. He filmed from the age of eight, worked for an independent filmmaker, then spent about a year in Lucas's special effects company before moving to advertising and music videos. He directed some fifty of them in about ten years, for pop stars, and in 1986 co-founded a company that produced, in its early years, nearly a third of American music videos. His first feature film, in 1992, bears the mark of the studio's interventions, and he disowns it.

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• CinemaFight ClubDavid Fincher · 1999Cinema