Fincher’s Musketeers Talk Shop

February 13, 2011, 12:39 PM

http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/f...

As a filmmaker, David Fincher has the reputation of an extreme perfectionist, so finely attuned to detail that he doesn’t trust anyone else to get even minor secondary shots. That vision earned him an Oscar nomination as the director of "The Social Network" – but what about the guys who have to work with him? While Mr. Fincher is celebrated for doing dozens and dozens of takes , what’s often forgotten is that other people then have to look at each and every one of those takes to put the fi...