David Lowery Quotes

David Lowery

Profession : Director

Birth : December 26, 1980

We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you or maybe just a couple of people, but you do what you can to make sure you're still around after you're gone.

David Lowery

I'm not searching for the meaning of life, but I'm looking for a meaning within my life.

David Lowery

In my darkest moments, I have not eaten an entire pie, but I have turned to other baked goods to find solace.

David Lowery

Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us. Specifically, the benchmarks are 'Mrs. Dalloway,' 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Orlando,' all of which have time as a central conceit.

David Lowery

I love animals and their behavior. I watch cat videos all the time.

David Lowery

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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David Lynch's 'Fire Walk With Me' has a scene in it that scared me so bad that I don't remember it. I blocked the memory out - repeatedly! I've seen the film two or three times, and I can never remember what it is that scares me.

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I'm always making movies for my audiences, but I'm not trying to meet their expectations.

David Lowery

You always want your movies to reach the widest audience possible.

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When you cut from a long shot to a close shot, you're doing it for a reason, or if you let something stay in long shot for a long take. On the short films, I was teaching myself how to express something personal cinematically, how to use the language of film the best I could.

David Lowery

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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There are some stories - not even stories, some feelings - that you can't accomplish in cinema without using celluloid.

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I love film criticism as an art. I think it's a very important thing.

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Hindsight is the most dangerous thing imaginable for me. I imagine that's the case for most filmmakers. And I would love to be a filmmaker who was an exception to that rule, but I'm certainly not.

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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 find myself very attached to the places I live, and moving is never easy for me.

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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 love what Paul Thomas Anderson did with 'The Master' with putting out those teasers made up of footage that's not in the movie.

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Digital is my safety net. I know how to use it, how to operate those cameras; it makes sense to me. Film is much more mysterious.

David Lowery

I've always endeavored to make movies with my friends.

David Lowery