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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. "
David Lowery
Important
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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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" I love films that are more random and chaotic, finding moments and capturing them. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I'm a deeply romantic person, nostalgic to a fault. "
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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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" 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 an atheist. I don't believe in the afterlife, but I do believe in ghosts. "
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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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" 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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" If your financiers care about the movie, they will be involved in a very constructive fashion, but it can get out of hand very quickly, and that is something to be aware of in any type of filmmaking. "
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" I don't think I'm the best screenwriter in the world. It's just important to me to write my movies so I'm personally invested in them. "
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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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" Some filmmakers are great at making complex things and films with a lot of moving parts, and I'm just not that way. "
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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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Live
My Life
" 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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" 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. "
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" 'Peter Pan' is a beloved property. It's a property that was brought to the screen many, many times before, so one has to not only justify the reasons why one might make a 'Peter Pan' movie in 2018, 2019 or whatever, but you also have to do justice to the source material. "
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You
" 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 love animals and their behavior. I watch cat videos all the time. "
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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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" I don't like being pessimistic. I don't like living my life with a nihilistic mindset. "
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" I love working with the same people. When I find someone I love and that I like working with, I don't want to stop working with them. "
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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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" I love the Spanish language. "
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" I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the things that I direct. "
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" 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. "
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Me
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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 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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