David Fincher’s Thoughts on Digital
I like the fact that there’s no guilt, you can just delete stuff. If something’s not worth the time that it took for everyone to say it, you can just go beep and it’s gone. So I like the plastic nature of how I’m able to work in digital.
…. Also, you have a giant monitor that everybody, from the boom operator to the makeup artist to the actors to the dolly grip – everybody’s looking at the same thing: this is the final, release print, it’s not going to change. And everyone can see, that shit’s out of focus, or her eyelash is coming off in the middle of that take, or she’s got a spot on her teeth.
…. And also, I hate voodoo. I hate the whole thing that you’re going to see seven out of eight takes that »