David Fincher on Alien 3

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David Fincher's got a new movie out, which means a press junket, which means he gets asked about Alien 3 a bit.  Here are some snippets for the collection:

Firstshowing.net asked him what interested him about each of the films he chose to make. On Alien 3:

It depends, it's different. I wanted to do an Alien movie. I wanted to do one since I was 16. I felt like I had a relationship to the Dan O'Bannon side of it as well as the Walter Hill side of it, as well as the H.R. Giger side of it. I felt like I kinda knew what I would do with that. The fact that I wasn't allowed to was my own fault. But, you know, that was a world that I loved that I couldn't get enough of. So that was an easy thing to want to get involved with, and probably too easy because it was totally fucked up for so many other different reasons.

http://www.firstshowing.net/2011/exclusive-fincher-explains-reasons-why-he-made-each-of-his-films/

And much the same here:

Fincher will say that the difficulty he encountered in making “Alien 3” was “at least half my fault for not truly understanding the lay of the land. For all of my jaded cynicism, I was also fairly naive in that I thought, ‘Oh, this multinational media conglomerate has more to lose by this movie being bad than I do.’ Which just isn’t the case. You learn that. And if you don’t, you’re truly foolish, and you have no business being in the food chain, anyway.”

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“When I started to work, it was almost impossible because nobody would take you seriously,” he said. “When you are 27 and directing your first movie, you are ridiculous. There were definitely people who were thinking, ‘Why am I listening to you?’ They knew you were just a newbie, and they knew you were a tyro helmer. And I (felt like) I was for 20 years. I was 40 before I got the point where I could show up, and they’d put a cup of coffee in my hand, and I would say, ‘Here’s what we’re gonna do,’ and people would say, ‘Yes, sir.’” Now 49, Fincher admitted that although “Dragon Tattoo” was easier to make than “Alien 3,” no movies are easy to make.

http://www.wickedlocal.com/avon/fun/entertainment/x550225499/Director-David-Fincher-adds-Dragon-Tattoo-to-eclectic-body-of-work#axzz1iUl4jaL3