David Lowery Quotes
There are some stories - not even stories, some feelings - that you can't accomplish in cinema without using celluloid.
Quotes to Explore
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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I view myself as a male artist.
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When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.
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When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.
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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.
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Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
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As a child, I remember I always wanted to make my parents happy and give them everything in their lives.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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I never felt truly at home in Switzerland.
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Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.
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I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening.
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I think I have minor obsessive compulsive disorder. Everything has to be tidy and just right.
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You don't want to make a movie just to make a movie. You better have a point of view.
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Cuando no sea más nada, ¿no seré más nada? ¡Cómo quisiera no ser más nada cuando no sea más nada!
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Working on 'Lonely, I'm Not' – I love the material so much, and it's spring in New York, so I'm walking home whistling every day.
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There are some stories - not even stories, some feelings - that you can't accomplish in cinema without using celluloid.
