The influence of John Woo's The Killer is there, in the way they're shot, the camera's often quite high and swooping.
It's certainly an antihero, but there's a nobility to him that I think in a weird way makes him similar to Alain Delon's character in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï.
— David Fincher · Netflix Tudum: David Fincher on The Killer, His Return to Cinema, and Why It's the 'Antidote' to James Bond
I was influenced by the French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville. He has a very special romantic style, an existential style. I learned a lot from him, from his films Le Samouraï and Le Cercle Rouge.
— Unknown (speaking director influenced by Melville) · Film Comment interview, Nov/Dec 1993 (quoted in CriterionCast)
Films That Influenced The Killer
