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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. "

David Lowery

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" I never rejected religion, but it just ceased to be an overriding concern in my life. "

" 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. "

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

" Casey Affleck is someone I want to work with again. We almost had him on 'Pete's Dragon,' but his scheduling issues didn't work out. "

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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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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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Parents

Hands

" 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?' "

" I think there is a value in leaving the world a little better off, and movies can do that in a minor way. "

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

" I'm sentimental to a fault. "

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Sentimental

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" I never put a premium on making a living. It was never one of those things that was important to me. "

" You always want your movies to reach the widest audience possible. "

" 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. "

" 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 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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" I like roller coasters that have the one 70-foot drop. "

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" A great sense of morality was instilled in me through my upbringing in the Catholic faith - particularly because my father is a moral theologian. And morality is something I believe exists separate from faith, as an intrinsic human quality that one should aspire to understand and participate in. "

" In my darkest moments, I have not eaten an entire pie, but I have turned to other baked goods to find solace. "

" 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. "