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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 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. "

David Lowery

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Style

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" I have so many aspirations and interests that would not fit within the Disney brand. I need to make sure I'm engaging those proclivities as well. "

" There are some stories - not even stories, some feelings - that you can't accomplish in cinema without using celluloid. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

David Lowery

Good Movie

Finish

" 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. "

" I've always endeavored to make movies with my friends. "

" 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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" One of my biggest regrets is that I didn't finish college. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 don't like being pessimistic. I don't like living my life with a nihilistic mindset. "

David Lowery

Life

Living

" When you cut from a long shot to a close shot, you're doing it for a reason, or if you let something stay in long shot for a long take. On the short films, I was teaching myself how to express something personal cinematically, how to use the language of film the best I could. "