Everything in between

Apart from the fact that directing pays the bills and you enjoy it --


I don't enjoy it at all.

Okay. So what need does it satisfy in you?

Filmmaking 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 paintings 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 being interviewed in Film Comment back in 1999.

Saw Zodiac. Genius.