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" I can't solve a puzzle for the life of me - my brain doesn't work that way. But I can take a very simple idea and extrapolate from it and spend time with it and pull things out of it. "

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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. "

David Lowery

Parents

Hands

" 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. "

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

" David Lynch's 'Fire Walk With Me' has a scene in it that scared me so bad that I don't remember it. I blocked the memory out - repeatedly! I've seen the film two or three times, and I can never remember what it is that scares me. "

David Lowery

Fire

Bad

" I love animals and their behavior. I watch cat videos all the time. "

" 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. "

" I'm happy to keep making Disney movies. "

" 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. "

David Lowery

Movies

Write

" Some filmmakers are great at making complex things and films with a lot of moving parts, and I'm just not that way. "

" I love communicating non-verbally. I find great value in it. "

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

" 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. "

" I love film criticism as an art. I think it's a very important thing. "

" 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. "

David Lowery

Think

History

" I know I have trouble watching my own films. "

" I'm not searching for the meaning of life, but I'm looking for a meaning within my life. "

" I'm an atheist. I don't believe in the afterlife, but I do believe in ghosts. "

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

" 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. "

" I find myself very attached to the places I live, and moving is never easy for me. "

" I grew up in a deeply Catholic home. Our parents always encouraged us to march to our own drums, though, so some of us are still Catholic and some are not. That's always going to be a part of me though; little bits of it trickle into my work. Whether it's an embrace or a rejection, I'm not always sure, but I can't avoid it. "

" 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.' "

David Lowery

Saying

Improvisation

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Time goes by so slowly when you're a child, and then, as an adult, it goes by in the blink of an eye. "

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

" 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. "

" The only part of 'A Ghost Story' that was reactionary was a temporal one. I had spent so much time making 'Pete's Dragon' that I was really impatient and excited to make something new. When this project presented itself, I was ready to jump right into it. I started shooting two days after 'Pete's Dragon.' "

" 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. "