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" My wife and I, we knew each other back in 2001 but had fallen out of touch. One day, I had a dream about her and wrote her a note on Facebook - I was living in L.A. at the time - and that turned into six months of just letter-writing. It started off with Facebook messages and turned into emails and eventually became actual hand-written letters. "

David Lowery

Day

Dream

" I have a repository of titles I like in my head, and I am always looking for a movie that I can put one on. "

" 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

" So many of my films involve houses or homes that have been abandoned. People trying to get back home. That's an idea that I keep dealing with. "

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

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

" I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing, it's all sort of one big mess of creative output. "

" 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. "

" 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 love movies. I can't participate in my love of movie-making fully unless I'm producing it. "

" 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. "

" 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 have a very short attention span, which is funny. I mean, you'd watch me and think that I don't, but I actually do. "

David Lowery

You

Attention

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 want to live a very positive and optimistic life that has a wonderful outlook on the future and the impact that I will have on the world and the people around me. "

David Lowery

Future

Life

" 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. "

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

" 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

" Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us. Specifically, the benchmarks are 'Mrs. Dalloway,' 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Orlando,' all of which have time as a central conceit. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Making movies is hard for me. Being on set is very trying. I'm not good at being that communicative for that long. Editing is where I'm happiest. "