David Lowery Quotes

In my opinion, the motion picture is the greatest medium of expression ever invented. It embraces all the other arts. The films that have the greatest unity, the greatest overall strength, and give the most satisfaction to the viewer, have been those in which a guiding hand was imposed in every section of the film's many divisions.

Films are neither true nor false. That includes my films, as well as others. They may make claims that are true or false, but films are too complex. They have too many ingredients.

The movies are all about visual, and television is all about character and dialogue.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

Technically, maybe I learned most of all from George Stevens, and among his movies I learned the most from 'A Place in the Sun.' It's a lesson in moviemaking.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

If I start paying attention to the mechanics of a film while watching it, then it's generally a bad film.

I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on 'The Fountain'. Although I do like the process, I think my favorite part of filmmaking is the actors.

There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story. Good actors can save a bad script and make it bearable, but good actors can't make a bad script good - they can just make it bearable.

I love the visual medium of film and TV. I love the science of it, working with the sound and the lighting and every aspect.

Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.

My love of visual sequences stems from live-action films like Sergio Leone westerns, Kurosawa, some '70s action films, Tex Avery, and my general love of animated movement.

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.

My first narrative films developed out of a documentary process - finding someone who was willing to be filmed, watching, listening, taking copious notes and many hours of video footage.

You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so I'm going to actually start working on my own.

I knew from early on I would go to film school and try to work behind the camera.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

Film is very condensed.