American - Director | December 26, 1980 -
The relationships I've had with animals are often some of the most profound. That's why you cry when a dog dies in a movie. The connection is so deep and so profound, and it isn't cluttered by humanity.
David Lowery
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One of my earliest memories, movie-related or otherwise, is of seeing a man dunking a man's head in a toilet on television, and my mom telling me that this is what would happen to me if I ever joined the Army. It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I would discover that this was a scene from 'The Great Santini,' starring Robert Duvall.
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The first movie I ever saw in the cinema was Walt Disney's 'Pinocchio,' upon its 1984 re-release, which would have put me at three years old.
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I'm sentimental to a fault.
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The idea that all we have is everything that's come before us, and we are the accumulated weight of our own personal histories, is a beautiful concept. And yet it also leaves you asking, 'Is that all there is? Is that all that defines us? Is that all we have?'
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The very first film I ever made, when I was seven years old, when I got my hands on a camcorder, was a remake of 'Poltergeist,' which I hadn't seen yet because my parents wouldn't allow me to. But I made my own version of it, and it starred my brother in a bed sheet.
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One of my favorite rules of writing: stop whenever it's feeling really good so you have something to look forward to the next day.
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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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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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