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" I love dialogue, but I'm also terrified of it. In all my movies, I've done my best to cut out as much dialogue as possible. I love the spaces in those silences. Even in 'Pete's Dragon,' I was so happy that the first twenty minutes have about five or six lines of dialogue. "

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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. "

David Lowery

Cinema

Years

Three

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In dialogue scenes, my favorite moments are when people aren't talking because you can cut to the heart of the matter much more quickly, often with a look. People hide things in words. When you don't have words to hide things in, it becomes much more direct and much more immediate of a connection. "

" It's tough for me to move on from places, even though I realize that it's not only necessary but very important to be able to do so. "

" I have a longstanding, unapologetic love for Ke$ha. "

David Lowery

Love

" With any movie that gets remade, whether I like the remake or not, I'm glad that I can still go watch the original that I love. If the remake is offering something different, I really value that because I'm having a new experience and adding something new to my life. "

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

" I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

David Lowery

Dangerous

Imagine

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm sentimental to a fault. "

David Lowery

Sentimental

Fault

" I love 'Peter Pan' to death. It's one of the most influential pieces of storytelling in my life. It made a huge impact on how I grew up. I love the cartoon. I love the 2003 version. "

" 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 make movies to be watched the way I want to watch them, and I want to watch them in movie theatres. "

" 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

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

" 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 always making movies for my audiences, but I'm not trying to meet their expectations. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "