Latest Lynn Shelton Quotes from Interviews

• In the collaborative process, you create a real intimacy; everybody ends up sharing personal stories and personal observations and their philosophies, their psychological side. By the time you get to set, it just creates such a sense of trust and intimacy between the director and the actors. It's really, really great.

  Lynn Shelton

  Philosophy, Real, Intimacy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The first time I ever intersected with the quote unquote industry or Hollywood or being given a paid job as a director all came because of the reputation I got coming out of Sundance as a veteran Sundance filmmaker.

  Lynn Shelton

  Jobs, Directors, Hollywood

  Source: collider.com

• I just really feel so grateful to Sundance because I've always been an artist and I've never been able to make a living at being an artist until Sundance.

  Lynn Shelton

  Grateful, Artist, Able

  Source: collider.com

• I'm not one of those directors who can just kind of walk away from the edit room and come back and check in.

  Lynn Shelton

  Directors, Rooms, Kind

  Source: collider.com

• I always wanted the actors to feel really free to leave the words behind if they weren't working, reword lines, if they felt like there was impulse they wanted to follow, if it was taking the scene out of order or adding something, that you should always feel free to do that.

  Lynn Shelton

  Order, Actors, Lines

  Source: collider.com

• I like being able to just turn the microscope on a small number of people, get to know them, drop into their lives for a period of time.

  Lynn Shelton

  Small Numbers, People, Able

  Source: collider.com

• It's just not enough time on set. That's my favorite time. I live for that time on set. I feel like that's when I'm stretching and flexing my muscles and learning how to direct better.

  Lynn Shelton

  Enough Time, My Favorite, Muscles

  Source: collider.com

• I hope to keep working with television. I wouldn't mind doing more.

  Lynn Shelton

  Mind, Television

  Source: collider.com

• If I don't have to think about the commercial aspect of it, then I feel like I'm going to make better films.

  Lynn Shelton

  Thinking, Film, Aspect

  Source: collider.com

• There's so much great TV and I always thought it would be such a fun little sideway to make money and then not have to worry about my films making a lot of money.

  Lynn Shelton

  Fun, Worry, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

• I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.

  Lynn Shelton

  Independent, Television, Found

  Source: collider.com

• Making art, being creative, is risky, especially for actors, but everybody on the set is being creative. You're putting yourself out there with ideas, and to have your brain be free of stress so that it can actually do its best work, it feels like you want to have a real sense of intimacy and connection and trust with everybody.

  Lynn Shelton

  Art, Real, Stress

  Source: collider.com

• I try to build relationships with the actors, at least to some degree beforehand, whether it's phone calls because I'm from Seattle or all of us meeting in person at some point, which is ideal if at all possible before we get on set together.

  Lynn Shelton

  Phones, Trying, Together

  Source: collider.com

• It feels to me like everyone is going to do their best work when they feel emotionally safe.

  Lynn Shelton

  Safe, Best Work, Feels

  Source: collider.com