David Lowery Quotes

David Lowery

Profession : Director

Birth : December 26, 1980

My wife and I, we knew each other back in 2001 but had fallen out of touch. One day, I had a dream about her and wrote her a note on Facebook - I was living in L.A. at the time - and that turned into six months of just letter-writing. It started off with Facebook messages and turned into emails and eventually became actual hand-written letters.

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I take a great deal of value in things that are done by hand or executed by hand.

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I love horror films. I love ghost movies and haunted-house movies.

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I love the Spanish language.

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So many of my films involve houses or homes that have been abandoned. People trying to get back home. That's an idea that I keep dealing with.

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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 love movies. I can't participate in my love of movie-making fully unless I'm producing it.

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Making movies is hard for me. Being on set is very trying. I'm not good at being that communicative for that long. Editing is where I'm happiest.

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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 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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Dramas are incredibly compelling. I feel like 'Silver Linings Playbook' is a drama, but because it's funny, people market it as a comedy.

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In the past, I'd been sort of a fan of writing a coat hanger of a script, and something I could hang ideas off of.

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No two people who make a movie on a certain budget scale are going to achieve the same thing because it just depends on what sort of favors you can call, and what sort of dynamics you can pull in the play.

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I'm someone who is very sentimental and nostalgic and attached to the homes I lived in, and I think moving is a traumatic experience.

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It's tough for me to move on from places, even though I realize that it's not only necessary but very important to be able to do so.

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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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Especially in the Western world, so much of our cultural ideas about grieving is about us, and I think it's important to get beyond that sometimes.

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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 find everything in life a little bit sad, but I also find a great deal of hope everywhere I look.

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I never put a premium on making a living. It was never one of those things that was important to me.

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