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I realized that filmmaking is an eminently scalable act. No matter how big or how small, there's joys and stresses that will all scale themselves magnificently to fit the production.

~David Lowery

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I love dialogue, but I'm also terrified of it. In all my movies, I've done my best to cut out as much dialogue as possible. I love the spaces in those silences. Even in 'Pete's Dragon,' I was so happy that the first twenty minutes have about five or six lines of dialogue.

~David Lowery

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I like being able to go to the cinema and sit and spend time observing something without thinking about plot or what one character is saying. I feel like I'm able to connect on a much more profound level.

~David Lowery

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With 'Pete's Dragon,' Disney was very excited about the movie I wanted to make; they were very supportive of it, and it was a smooth process. I was really surprised by that.

~David Lowery

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If your financiers care about the movie, they will be involved in a very constructive fashion, but it can get out of hand very quickly, and that is something to be aware of in any type of filmmaking.

~David Lowery

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'Peter Pan' is a beloved property. It's a property that was brought to the screen many, many times before, so one has to not only justify the reasons why one might make a 'Peter Pan' movie in 2018, 2019 or whatever, but you also have to do justice to the source material.

~David Lowery

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I don't think I'm the best screenwriter in the world. It's just important to me to write my movies so I'm personally invested in them.

~David Lowery

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If I can't finish a screenplay, if I can't get to the last page as a writer, it probably means it's not a good movie for me to make.

~David Lowery

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I have a longstanding, unapologetic love for Ke$ha.

~David Lowery

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I know I have trouble watching my own films.

~David Lowery

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: December 26th, 1980

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