I don't like being pessimistic. I don't like living my life with a nihilistic mindset. — David Lowery Being Copy Share Image
I think there is a value in leaving the world a little better off, and movies can do that in a minor… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
I love movies. I can't participate in my love of movie-making fully unless I'm producing it. — David Lowery Cinema Copy Share Image
I love horror films. I love ghost movies and haunted-house movies. — David Lowery Cinema Copy Share Image
I'm always making movies for my audiences, but I'm not trying to meet their expectations. — David Lowery Copy Share Image
I take a great deal of value in things that are done by hand or executed by hand. — David Lowery Copy Share Image
'Ain't Them Bodies Saints' wound up becoming a love story even though it was not initially meant to be one. — David Lowery Copy Share Image
I'm an atheist. I don't believe in the afterlife, but I do believe in ghosts. — David Lowery Afterlife Copy Share Image
With 'Pete's Dragon,' Disney was very excited about the movie I wanted to make; they were very supportive of it, and it… — David Lowery Disney Copy Share Image
In my darkest moments, I have not eaten an entire pie, but I have turned to other baked goods to find solace. — David Lowery Baked goods Copy Share Image
In the past, I'd been sort of a fan of writing a coat hanger of a script, and something I could hang… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
Making movies is hard for me. Being on set is very trying. I'm not good at being that communicative for that long.… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
Grief reveals itself in the most mundane activities, like eating. It's never when you're looking at old pictures. — David Lowery Death Copy Share Image
I love working with the same people. When I find someone I love and that I like working with, I don't want… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
Casey Affleck is someone I want to work with again. We almost had him on 'Pete's Dragon,' but his scheduling issues didn't… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm the best screenwriter in the world. It's just important to me to write my movies so I'm personally… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
I've never had an actual haunting experience, in the way you might anticipate a ghost in a movie haunting someone, but I… — David Lowery Experience Copy Share Image
It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which… — David Lowery Candle Copy Share Image
I grew up in a deeply Catholic home. Our parents always encouraged us to march to our own drums, though, so some… — David Lowery Catholic Copy Share Image
At the end of the day on 'Pete's Dragon,' if we didn't nail something, we could come back and pick it up… — David Lowery Day Copy Share Image
I was raised in a deeply Catholic family. There was a sense that everything we were doing was to prepare ourselves for… — David Lowery Afterlife Copy Share Image
The very first film I ever made, when I was seven years old, when I got my hands on a camcorder, was… — David Lowery Brother Copy Share Image
One of my earliest memories, movie-related or otherwise, is of seeing a man dunking a man's head in a toilet on television,… — David Lowery Army Copy Share Image
I love dialogue, but I'm also terrified of it. In all my movies, I've done my best to cut out as much… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
I never rejected religion, but it just ceased to be an overriding concern in my life. — David Lowery Catholic Copy Share Image
I make movies to be watched the way I want to watch them, and I want to watch them in movie theatres. — David Lowery Film Copy Share Image
I love animals and their behavior. I watch cat videos all the time. — David Lowery Animals Copy Share Image
No two people who make a movie on a certain budget scale are going to achieve the same thing because it just… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
I like to make movies in Texas because that's where I learned how to do it. I know the industry there, I… — David Lowery Cinema Copy Share Image
There are some stories - not even stories, some feelings - that you can't accomplish in cinema without using celluloid. — David Lowery Copy Share Image
I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
I realized that filmmaking is an eminently scalable act. No matter how big or how small, there's joys and stresses that will… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
I have a very short attention span, which is funny. I mean, you'd watch me and think that I don't, but I… — David Lowery Attention Copy Share Image
Dramas are incredibly compelling. I feel like 'Silver Linings Playbook' is a drama, but because it's funny, people market it as a… — David Lowery Comedy Copy Share Image
I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
Especially in the Western world, so much of our cultural ideas about grieving is about us, and I think it's important to… — David Lowery Grieving Copy Share Image
I think, with 'St. Nick,' when you're working with a smaller budget, you have fewer risks involved. You're able to take chances… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
If your financiers care about the movie, they will be involved in a very constructive fashion, but it can get out of… — David Lowery Cinema Copy Share Image
I try to live my life with grace and through grace even though I don't particularly believe in the divine - and… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
