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" 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. "

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" 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. "

David Lowery

Myself

Language

Long

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I like being able to go to the cinema and sit and spend time observing something without thinking about plot or what one character is saying. I feel like I'm able to connect on a much more profound level. "

" 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 happy to keep making Disney movies. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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

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

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

David Lowery

Roller

Drop

" 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

" When you have a lot going on in a scene - whether it be a lot of shots, a lot of coverage, a lot of edits, or just the amount of content - it can cover up a deficit of true feeling. But when you don't have a lot of material to work with, you really have to be sincere with everything. You really have to mean it, because there's nowhere to hide. "

" 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. "

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

David Lowery

Love

" 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

" I love films that are more random and chaotic, finding moments and capturing them. "

David Lowery

Moments

Finding

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

" 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. "

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

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

" In the past, I'd been sort of a fan of writing a coat hanger of a script, and something I could hang ideas off of. "