David Lowery Quotes
I make movies to be watched the way I want to watch them, and I want to watch them in movie theatres.
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Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.
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I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
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Adam Sandler is a remarkable movie brand.
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'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'
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When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to make an '80s-style slasher flick that actually holds up. Basically, I wanted to make the movie that I wanted to see and pay no mind to current trends or conventions.
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.
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I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
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A lot of people don't know that I had a special appearance in 'Keratam'; that was my first Telugu film. I only shot for four to five days. When they called me, I said, 'I can't give 60 days for a movie. If you have something for one week or 10 days, then I can accommodate.'
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The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was 'Return of the Jedi.' I can remember seeing Darth Vader's helmet come off. The shock of that moment.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
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As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.
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After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.
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Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.
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I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.
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They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.
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We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I'm not about to break them. But it is fun for me to bend them and mess with them.
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The only pitch I have to movie people is the same as this one: Just give me $8 million. I'm not telling you what it's about and I'm not telling you who's in it.
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
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I think that, like the show 'Game of Thrones,' our fascination with power struggles is pretty unanimous.
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I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
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MUCKY drawing I AM FeeLing completely mucky today too. everyone at school seems so much tougher + pulled together and not so emotionally involved. I get so mad at MYSELF FOR 'caring so deeply' AND 'MAINTAINING' all this stuff in me that FEELS SO PATHectic. I want to put my tHINKing in HYBernation FOR A WHile.
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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.
