Design Thought Leader

It’s like finding a character. When I’m watching somebody act, it’s a behaviour editorial function—I look at someone act, and I might say, ‘I don’t believe him when he says that.’ I don’t know why I don’t believe him, probably because the people that I’ve met, they don’t act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it. I also have rules of thumb about dialogue. For example, I feel that most people, when they speak, are lying. So, I’m looking at the eyes, I’m more interested in the body and seeing how comfortable they are saying what it is they are saying than specifically what they’re saying. I think the same thing is true of cinematography: you’re presented with a room and a scene. You have a feeling about this, maybe it’s Thanksgiving and it’s the end of the day, so there’s no direct sunlight coming in because the sun’s going down behind trees. So you kind of talk about it in those terms.

David Fincher
Filmmaker