David Lowery Quotes
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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'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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The films I love are very precise, and every shot means something; every shot should convey something new.
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I love communicating non-verbally. I find great value in it.
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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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Grief reveals itself in the most mundane activities, like eating. It's never when you're looking at old pictures.
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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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I'm a deeply romantic person, nostalgic to a fault.
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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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You always want your movies to reach the widest audience possible.
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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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I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing, it's all sort of one big mess of creative output.
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They were the first to offer, and that's the only place I really wanted to play. For me, I love the city of Boise and I'm really comfortable with the whole staff down there. And what I like most about that program is they win and they win the right way.
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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 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 never rejected religion, but it just ceased to be an overriding concern in my life.
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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.
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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.
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I love films that are more random and chaotic, finding moments and capturing them.
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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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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.