109 Quotes by David Lowery

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.

At the end of the day on 'Pete's Dragon,' if we didn't nail something, we could come back and pick it up later. I always knew there was a safety net built in that Disney would not let the movie fail. But in this case, with 'A Ghost Story,' it was all on the line.

I find myself very attached to the places I live, and moving is never easy for me.

In my darkest moments, I have not eaten an entire pie, but I have turned to other baked goods to find solace.

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.

I think there is a value in leaving the world a little better off, and movies can do that in a minor way.

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.

One of my biggest regrets is that I didn't finish college.

There are some stories - not even stories, some feelings - that you can't accomplish in cinema without using celluloid.