David Lowery Quotes
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When I was a kid, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, my stuffed animals - they were real. There is the tremendous suspension of disbelief that you have as a child. It's harder as an adult.
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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.'
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I certainly did not envisage making a Disney movie. The most I hoped for was to be able to pay my bills. I was not a go-getter. I was very type-B.
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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.
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If I can't finish a screenplay, if I can't get to the last page as a writer, it probably means it's not a good movie for me to make.
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I made 'St. Nick' on a 30-page outline. 'Aint' Them Bodies Saints' was a full-bodied script, but it still had a lot of room for improvisation. There were scenes that weren't there on the page - just a sentence saying something happens. I was like, 'We'll figure this out when we shoot it.'
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I love movies. I can't participate in my love of movie-making fully unless I'm producing it.
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The relationships I've had with animals are often some of the most profound. That's why you cry when a dog dies in a movie. The connection is so deep and so profound, and it isn't cluttered by humanity.
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Knowledge of music business gives us access to artists, talent and a unique approach to performing services for advertising. Not to mention the branding implications of unique music with original sense for linking an advertiser, its message and its target.
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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.
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Grief reveals itself in the most mundane activities, like eating. It's never when you're looking at old pictures.
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When I'm writing a story, I try to reduce it to the barest possible components and go from there.
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I've never had an actual haunting experience, in the way you might anticipate a ghost in a movie haunting someone, but I do feel presences around me all the time, and I do feel that memories haunt us the way ghosts haunt us or might haunt characters in a film.
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I'll be on the field about 100 plays a game (this year), ... (But) I'm all about winning, so if they need me to step in and help then I'm going to do it.
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I think there is a value in leaving the world a little better off, and movies can do that in a minor way.
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I'm sentimental to a fault.
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I love animals and their behavior. I watch cat videos all the time.
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I'm a deeply romantic person, nostalgic to a fault.
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With any movie that gets remade, whether I like the remake or not, I'm glad that I can still go watch the original that I love. If the remake is offering something different, I really value that because I'm having a new experience and adding something new to my life.
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Time goes by so slowly when you're a child, and then, as an adult, it goes by in the blink of an eye.
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I never rejected religion, but it just ceased to be an overriding concern in my life.
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I think all people are familiar with thinking about their death and trying to come to terms with the fact that we will, at some point, no longer exist. The loss of one's ego is very tough to reconcile with; you really have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to wrap your head around the idea of just not existing anymore.
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I guess you could say they consulted with us, but it wasn't like a friendly exchange. We got a cease-and-desist letter from them.
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I love what Paul Thomas Anderson did with 'The Master' with putting out those teasers made up of footage that's not in the movie.