David Lowery Quotes

David Lowery

Profession : Director

Birth : December 26, 1980

The films I love are very precise, and every shot means something; every shot should convey something new.

David Lowery

I love films that are more random and chaotic, finding moments and capturing them.

David Lowery

I'm a deeply romantic person, nostalgic to a fault.

David Lowery

I was raised in a deeply Catholic family. There was a sense that everything we were doing was to prepare ourselves for an afterlife in heaven. In my teenage years, that became less important to me. Eventually, that turned into agnosticism, which became atheism.

David Lowery

Grief reveals itself in the most mundane activities, like eating. It's never when you're looking at old pictures.

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I can't watch my movies at their premieres - I learned that lesson the hard way.

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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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'Ain't Them Bodies Saints' wound up becoming a love story even though it was not initially meant to be one.

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It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't even hold a candle to. We, as human beings, are just a small element in the overarching sweep of narrative history. That really had a profound effect on me, that realization.

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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 want to live a very positive and optimistic life that has a wonderful outlook on the future and the impact that I will have on the world and the people around me.

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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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The image of a bedsheet ghost standing all alone in an empty house was something I was obsessed with. I really wanted to make a film about that image, and I was waiting for the right story to come along. When it did, I did my best to honor that image.

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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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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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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 guess you can't really turn a camera on outside in Texas without getting Terrence Malick comparisons.

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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 like to make movies in Texas because that's where I learned how to do it. I know the industry there, I know the people, I know the crews. But it's hard to make films in Texas.

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