I find myself very attached to the places I live, and moving is never easy for me. David Lowery More Quotes by David Lowery More Quotes From David Lowery 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 childyoueyetime 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 hidefeelingyouwork 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 someonethinkexperiencemoving I'm not searching for the meaning of life, but I'm looking for a meaning within my life. David Lowery meaningmy-lifelookinglife I'm an atheist. I don't believe in the afterlife, but I do believe in ghosts. David Lowery ghostsafterlifeatheistbelieve 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. David Lowery childyousantareal I find everything in life a little bit sad, but I also find a great deal of hope everywhere I look. David Lowery greatsadhopelife I love films that are more random and chaotic, finding moments and capturing them. David Lowery findingrandommomentslove A great sense of morality was instilled in me through my upbringing in the Catholic faith - particularly because my father is a moral theologian. And morality is something I believe exists separate from faith, as an intrinsic human quality that one should aspire to understand and participate in. David Lowery mequalityfaithfather I can't solve a puzzle for the life of me - my brain doesn't work that way. But I can take a very simple idea and extrapolate from it and spend time with it and pull things out of it. David Lowery mesimpleworklife 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 thinkmeyoufunny I certainly did not envisage making a Disney movie. The most I hoped for was to be able to pay my bills. I was not a go-getter. I was very type-B. David Lowery didverybillspay 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 bestmyselfyoulong 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 meyoutimehistory I've never had an actual haunting experience, in the way you might anticipate a ghost in a movie haunting someone, but I do feel presences around me all the time, and I do feel that memories haunt us the way ghosts haunt us or might haunt characters in a film. David Lowery meexperiencetimememories I think there is a value in leaving the world a little better off, and movies can do that in a minor way. David Lowery valuebetterthinkworld I love what Paul Thomas Anderson did with 'The Master' with putting out those teasers made up of footage that's not in the movie. David Lowery masteroutuplove Digital is my safety net. I know how to use it, how to operate those cameras; it makes sense to me. Film is much more mysterious. David Lowery knowmedigitalsafety There are some stories - not even stories, some feelings - that you can't accomplish in cinema without using celluloid. David Lowery someyoucinemafeelings You always want your movies to reach the widest audience possible. David Lowery yourmoviesyouwant
