David Lowery Quotes

I go to watch the so-called mainstream films for different reasons. I certainly like those films if they are giving me something new to look out for.

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

I feel old films should not be remade.

You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.

Remakes have been done forever. People talk about 'Scarface' and don't even know it was a remake.

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

I didn't go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. Smell up the whole place. The most impactful movies were 'Godfather II' and 'Scarface'. I loved the human complexity, and those movies are so well shot. Cinematic greatness. I really stopped going in my early twenties.

I don't revisit anything unless there's a really good occasion, like BAM screened 'This Is My Life', with Lena Dunham and Nora Ephron before she died. It also screened 'Uncle Buck', so I took my niece. I don't have a TV, so I don't happen upon old movies like you would if you had cable.

I was like, 'I've got to watch some more of these.' And yeah, I watched 'E.T.,' which I absolutely love. I'm not a big crier, but that just always makes me cry.

'Deewar' has been remade so many times, 'Trishul' has been remade so many times. But 'Don' - no one has gone into this area as often as they have gone into these other movies, and I think it fits into the modern sensibility of movie viewing quite well.

In the '90s, I kind of put aside all those things I loved in the '80s and I got really into watching foreign films and art films and stuff like that, and sort of soaking those up.

I saw 'A Night at the Opera,' this Marx Brothers film, when I was, like, six years old. I just became obsessed, you know?

I don't think remakes should be looked down upon.

In general I think the inspiration was to think about all those movies that I saw as a kid and never knew they were remakes, because I know there's probably another kid going to watch Evil Dead who has no idea.

If you start watching the oldies, you're in trouble. I feel ancient if "Grand Hotel" or "The Bride Wore Red" comes on. I have a sneaking regard for "Mildred Pierce", but the others do nothing for me.

What I love about films is that you can see "King Kong" and you can be affected by it and then you realize that he was just this little guy when he made that fall.

It took me a lot of times watching it that I started to appreciate 'Pulp Fiction.'

I love watching old movies, and I read a lot of autobiographies.

I watch television all the time, mostly PBS and old movies like 'The Quiet Man,' my favorite Wayne movie. It's marvelous. I just loved the man and still do.

I'm glad that we can add something new to the fold that Metallica's not going to bring to the table, and they're going to do what they do.

I am extremely eclectic in choosing my films as an audience, and as a direct result of that, I love exploring, I love cinema, and I love learning from different experiences.

I love my arthouse films, and I love taking a chance.

I grew up watching a lot of film.

I grew up watching 'Gigi.' My grandmother had it, and I watched it there.

I love to watch old movies when I get time off.