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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.
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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.
David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
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A great sense of morality was instilled in me through my upbringing in the Catholic faith - particularly because my father is a moral theologian. And morality is something I believe exists separate from faith, as an intrinsic human quality that one should aspire to understand and participate in.
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There are some stories - not even stories, some feelings - that you can't accomplish in cinema without using celluloid.
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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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With the transcendent or supernatural, they help us contextualize our own lives while we are here on this earth. On a narrative level, as a storyteller, they are a wonderful tool and technique by which to explore those hopes, those fears, those existential dilemmas that we all face from time to time.
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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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The films I love are very precise, and every shot means something; every shot should convey something new.
David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
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You always want your movies to reach the widest audience possible.
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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'm a deeply romantic person, nostalgic to a fault.
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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.
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I have so many aspirations and interests that would not fit within the Disney brand. I need to make sure I'm engaging those proclivities as well.
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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 Camper Van Beethoven
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Casey Affleck is someone I want to work with again. We almost had him on 'Pete's Dragon,' but his scheduling issues didn't work out.
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I think, with 'St. Nick,' when you're working with a smaller budget, you have fewer risks involved. You're able to take chances with style and content.
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'Peter Pan' is a beloved property. It's a property that was brought to the screen many, many times before, so one has to not only justify the reasons why one might make a 'Peter Pan' movie in 2018, 2019 or whatever, but you also have to do justice to the source material.
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I'm always making movies for my audiences, but I'm not trying to meet their expectations.
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I love films that are more random and chaotic, finding moments and capturing them.
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I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity.
David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
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I try to live my life with grace and through grace even though I don't particularly believe in the divine - and that's a direct result of my having been raised Catholic.
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I never rejected religion, but it just ceased to be an overriding concern in my life.
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In dialogue scenes, my favorite moments are when people aren't talking because you can cut to the heart of the matter much more quickly, often with a look. People hide things in words. When you don't have words to hide things in, it becomes much more direct and much more immediate of a connection.
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I have a very short attention span, which is funny. I mean, you'd watch me and think that I don't, but I actually do.
David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven