Interview (Written): David Lowery

Writer-director of the indie movie A Ghost Story.

A Playlist interview with David Lowery whose writing-directing credits include Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Pete’s Dragon, and this year’s A Ghost Story.

I keep saying this: this movie shouldn’t work. It’s about a bed sheet wearing ghost contemplating existence.
 I never had any expectations for it. I didn’t know if it was a movie that anyone was going to see. I didn’t know if it would be a movie I’d need to bury or an embarrassment to everyone. I was fully prepared for it to fail and not work. When you’re operating on that level that when it proves to be the opposite, it’s hard to wrap your head around it.

I keep thinking about what the movie is like without editing, sound and music and how hard that must have been.
 Every day of the shoot I was convinced that it wasn’t working. I had an idea in my head that worked and then when I wrote the script I was further convinced it worked as envisioned and then we started and all my confidence went right out the window.

It wasn’t until a few months before Sundance that we had a cut of the film that hinted to me that we might be able to pull it off, but up until then, I was seeing all the clunkiness, and early on, on a shot by shot level, the movie wasn’t working at all.

A trailer for A Ghost Story:

For the rest of the interview, go here.

A Ghost Story website here.

Twitter: @ghoststorymovie, @ThePlaylist.