“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.”

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.