50 David Lowery Quotes for You to Enjoy

David Lowery

American Director

Born: Dec 26, 1980

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Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen

The only part of 'A Ghost Story' that was reactionary was a temporal one. I had spent so much time making 'Pete's Dragon' that I was really impatient and excited to make something new. When this project presented itself, I was ready to jump right into it. I started shooting two days after 'Pete's Dragon.' David Lowery

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I love dialogue, but I'm also terrified of it. In all my movies, I've done my best to cut out as much dialogue as possible. I love the spaces in those silences. Even in 'Pete's Dragon,' I was so happy that the first twenty minutes have about five or six lines of dialogue. David Lowery

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I like being able to go to the cinema and sit and spend time observing something without thinking about plot or what one character is saying. I feel like I'm able to connect on a much more profound level. David Lowery

Obviously 'Pete's Dragon' is more commercial than 'A Ghost Story,' but when making them, I'm just trying to tell a story that matters to me, that ultimately would satisfy me as a moviegoer. Because watching movies is my favorite thing to do. I watch a lot of them. David Lowery

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I have a longstanding, unapologetic love for Ke$ha. David Lowery

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I know I have trouble watching my own films. David Lowery

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At the end of the day on 'Pete's Dragon,' if we didn't nail something, we could come back and pick it up later. I always knew there was a safety net built in that Disney would not let the movie fail. But in this case, with 'A Ghost Story,' it was all on the line. David Lowery

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I grew up in a deeply Catholic home. Our parents always encouraged us to march to our own drums, though, so some of us are still Catholic and some are not. That's always going to be a part of me though; little bits of it trickle into my work. Whether it's an embrace or a rejection, I'm not always sure, but I can't avoid it. David Lowery

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One of my biggest regrets is that I didn't finish college. David Lowery

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I love animals and their behavior. I watch cat videos all the time. David Lowery

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I was raised in a deeply Catholic family. There was a sense that everything we were doing was to prepare ourselves for an afterlife in heaven. In my teenage years, that became less important to me. Eventually, that turned into agnosticism, which became atheism. David Lowery

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I can't watch my movies at their premieres - I learned that lesson the hard way. David Lowery

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I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing, it's all sort of one big mess of creative output. David Lowery

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I have a repository of titles I like in my head, and I am always looking for a movie that I can put one on. David Lowery

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We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you or maybe just a couple of people, but you do what you can to make sure you're still around after you're gone. David Lowery

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I make movies to be watched the way I want to watch them, and I want to watch them in movie theatres. David Lowery

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I often conflate the domestic and the cosmic on a daily basis. David Lowery

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There is a palpable sense of history in the homes that I choose to occupy. I think that's one of the reasons I gravitate towards old homes: I really like that sense of history and that sense that I am one step in a very long process that trails out in both directions around me - before me and ahead of me. David Lowery

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