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" Dramas are incredibly compelling. I feel like 'Silver Linings Playbook' is a drama, but because it's funny, people market it as a comedy. "
David Lowery
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" I'm sentimental to a fault. "
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" I've always endeavored to make movies with my friends. "
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" 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. "
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Live
My Life
" 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. "
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" Some filmmakers are great at making complex things and films with a lot of moving parts, and I'm just not that way. "
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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. "
David Lowery
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Brand
Within
" '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. "
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Property
You
" I guess you can't really turn a camera on outside in Texas without getting Terrence Malick comparisons. "
David Lowery
Turn
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You
" Time goes by so slowly when you're a child, and then, as an adult, it goes by in the blink of an eye. "
David Lowery
Time
You
Time Goes By
" I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing, it's all sort of one big mess of creative output. "
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Editing
Mess
" I love communicating non-verbally. I find great value in it. "
David Lowery
Great
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" It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't even hold a candle to. We, as human beings, are just a small element in the overarching sweep of narrative history. That really had a profound effect on me, that realization. "
David Lowery
Candle
History
Time
" 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. "
David Lowery
Need
Always
Myself
" 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
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Good Movie
Finish
" I'm not searching for the meaning of life, but I'm looking for a meaning within my life. "
David Lowery
Meaning
Within
Life
" I often conflate the domestic and the cosmic on a daily basis. "
David Lowery
Often
Basis
Domestic
" My wife and I, we knew each other back in 2001 but had fallen out of touch. One day, I had a dream about her and wrote her a note on Facebook - I was living in L.A. at the time - and that turned into six months of just letter-writing. It started off with Facebook messages and turned into emails and eventually became actual hand-written letters. "
David Lowery
Day
Dream
Living
" 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. "
David Lowery
Hide
Content
Feeling
" I know I have trouble watching my own films. "
David Lowery
Watching
Trouble
My Own
" 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. "
David Lowery
Who
Experience
Someone
" 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
Me
Write
" I have a longstanding, unapologetic love for Ke$ha. "
David Lowery
Love
" 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. "
David Lowery
My Life
Life
Experience
" 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. "
David Lowery
Dog
Animals
Cry
" 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 Lowery
I Am
I Can
Head
" I'm always making movies for my audiences, but I'm not trying to meet their expectations. "
David Lowery
Expectations
Meet
Trying
" 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. "
David Lowery
You
Budget
Achieve
" 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
" In my darkest moments, I have not eaten an entire pie, but I have turned to other baked goods to find solace. "
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Pie
Find
Moments
" I grew up in a deeply Catholic home. Our parents always encouraged us to march to our own drums, though, so some of us are still Catholic and some are not. That's always going to be a part of me though; little bits of it trickle into my work. Whether it's an embrace or a rejection, I'm not always sure, but I can't avoid it. "
David Lowery
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