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. David Lowery Read Quote
The films I love are very precise, and every shot means something; every shot should convey something new. David Lowery Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I was raised in a deeply Catholic family. There was a sense that everything we were doing was to prepare ourselves for an afterlife in heaven. In my teenage years, that became less important to me. Eventually, that turned into agnosticism, which became atheism. David Lowery Read Quote
Grief reveals itself in the most mundane activities, like eating. It’s never when you’re looking at old pictures. David Lowery Read Quote
I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing, it’s all sort of one big mess of creative output. David Lowery Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’ wound up becoming a love story even though it was not initially meant to be one. David Lowery Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I want to live a very positive and optimistic life that has a wonderful outlook on the future and the impact that I will have on the world and the people around me. David Lowery Read Quote
