American - Director | December 26, 1980 -
If I can't finish a screenplay, if I can't get to the last page as a writer, it probably means it's not a good movie for me to make.
David Lowery
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Obviously 'Pete's Dragon' is more commercial than 'A Ghost Story,' but when making them, I'm just trying to tell a story that matters to me, that ultimately would satisfy me as a moviegoer. Because watching movies is my favorite thing to do. I watch a lot of them.
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I'm an atheist. I don't believe in the afterlife, but I do believe in ghosts.
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I have a longstanding, unapologetic love for Ke$ha.
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I know I have trouble watching my own films.
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At the end of the day on 'Pete's Dragon,' if we didn't nail something, we could come back and pick it up later. I always knew there was a safety net built in that Disney would not let the movie fail. But in this case, with 'A Ghost Story,' it was all on the line.
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I certainly did not envisage making a Disney movie. The most I hoped for was to be able to pay my bills. I was not a go-getter. I was very type-B.
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One of my biggest regrets is that I didn't finish college.
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I love animals and their behavior. I watch cat videos all the time.
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When I was a kid, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, my stuffed animals - they were real. There is the tremendous suspension of disbelief that you have as a child. It's harder as an adult.
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The films I love are very precise, and every shot means something; every shot should convey something new.
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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.
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