David Lowery

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“I like to make movies in Texas because that's where I learned how to do it. I know the industry there, I know the people, I know the crews. But it's hard to make films in Texas.”

“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.”

“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 realized that filmmaking is an eminently scalable act. No matter how big or how small, there's joys and stresses that will all scale themselves magnificently to fit the production.”

“At the end of the day on 'Pete's Dragon,' if we didn't nail something, we could come back and pick it up later. I always knew there was a safety net built in that Disney would not let the movie fail. But in this case, with 'A Ghost Story,' it was all on the line.”

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

“I love horror films. I love ghost movies and haunted-house movies.”

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

“'Peter Pan' is a beloved property. It's a property that was brought to the screen many, many times before, so one has to not only justify the reasons why one might make a 'Peter Pan' movie in 2018, 2019 or whatever, but you also have to do justice to the source material.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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