David Lowery Quotes

There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.

I use the computer as a tool. Like chance or the camera or the other tools I've used, it can open my eye to other ways of seeing or of making dances. It's not simply to do a trick.

I know there are people who can direct sitting down away from it all at a video monitor. But I can't do that.

A lot of filmmakers understand that the work is done digitally, and it's technically possible to change it late in the game.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

I love to play with the gadgets that come with film.

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

My brother Van got the computer first and showed me what it was like to edit video. I definitely credit Van with turning me onto filmmaking.

I think digital will displace film, yes. We're talking about digital as a thing of the future, but I'm afraid that it's here.

I don't really do playlists. I don't know how to make a playlist, honestly.

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.

Truthfully, I don't know how those special effects people do it.

I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.

Art is difficult.

On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.

I think that an artist should be a skilled craftsman.

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.

When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.

I feel more like a creative artist using photography because there's - the digital work is so interesting now. It's come to that. I have had many different stages of photography - there are many different ways to take photos. But I feel now I'm in that stage of my life where I use the camera, you know, in that way.

There can be no 'graduated exercises in drawing' leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.

I'm very interested in the editing process - in all aspects of film-making, really.

I've always painted or drawn pictures or taken still photographs; now I shoot movies. It's just about making images, really.