“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.”

American filmmaker

David Lowery is an American filmmaker known for writing and directing films that move between drama, fantasy, crime and musical forms. His work includes Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Pete's Dragon, A Ghost Story, The Old Man & the Gun, The Green Knight, and Mother Mary. Ain't Them Bodies Saints, released in 2013 and starring Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck, was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at that year's Sundance Film Festival. Lowery later directed Disney's Pete's Dragon in 2016, a live-action adaptation he also co-wrote, and went on to make films that range from the intimate and reflective to the more expansive and mythic.