David Fincher

David Fincher is an American born director who was raised in California. He has directed music videos, adverts for television and films. He was a founding member of Propaganda Films in 1986.

In particular he has directed some extremely succesful films such as Fight Club (1999), Se7en (1995) and Panic Room (2002). David has noticable directed mainly thrillers or films that have thriller aspects to them, which suggests that he has a strong interest in that genre.

He has been quoted as saying "I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me, I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about Jaws is the fact that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again." [source: http://www.imdb.com] which is probably why the films he directs are so gripping, that aspect of wanting to draw the audience in so far that they are forever changed by seeing that film. He has also mainly directed films which are very realistic - i.e they could happen in every day life.
For example:
Panic Room - is about a woman and her daughter who have their house broken into so hide in the safest room in their house their 'panic room' but the burgulars want something that is inside that room, the most valuable thing in the house.
Se7en - is about two homocide detectives and a serial killer.
Zodiac - is about a serial killer in San Francisco.

Inspiration: Se7en's Opening Credits

I really like the opening credits of this film because although they are classical in many ways - they are in black and white, there is slight variation in the fact that they don't stay in the same place. They move position, they jump slightly and they sometimes distort into other words/jumble of letters and characters. I think this is a really nice idea because credits are normally so boring, but they've come up with something original but not too flashy or over the top.

This has inspired to try to come up with something a bit different for the credits in my thriller opening.