I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor. Lynn Shelton More Quotes by Lynn Shelton More Quotes From Lynn Shelton 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 lines actors order 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 kind directors rooms 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 able people 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 muscles enough-time my-favorite 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 aspect film thinking 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 would-be worry fun I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct. Lynn Shelton independent found television I hope to keep working with television. I wouldn't mind doing more. Lynn Shelton mind television Truth be told, I hear stories every day that would make you say, 'If you put that in a movie, you wouldn't believe it.' Real life really is kinda incredible; the stories from people's actual lives defy credibility. People's lives are messy, humans are messy, and they're flawed. Lynn Shelton day you truth life I'm really fascinated by the self and how our selves shift and change over time and in relationship to different people. Lynn Shelton change time relationship people I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living. Lynn Shelton never always living artist When I started working in film, I loved photography, I loved the image, I loved telling the story within a frame, but as I started playing around with film and video, it was like, 'Oh my god.' You just have so much more to play with. Lynn Shelton loved story you god By the time I hit college, my secret shame was the reason I was an actor was my own words sort of dried up. I stopped writing. I stopped being able to form my own vision. That's actually what my first feature is about - looking back at two different selves. Lynn Shelton words looking-back vision time You wake up one day and you realize that all these years have gone by and I have this mortgage and I have this couch and I have this life and... is this going to be my prison? Lynn Shelton day you wake-up life I don't have a desire to make films that have cardboard cut-out or Hollywood stand-in replicas of humans. I need the real deal. Lynn Shelton need hollywood real desire I like to put people into situations that are out of their comfort zone and see what happens. Lynn Shelton see comfort-zone comfort people I've fallen for straight men, I've fallen for gay men, I've fallen for straight women and gay women. I really have. I had crushes on really every single kind of person in the world. Lynn Shelton women gay men world There's always so much more that can be conveyed on screen visually in the expressions of people's faces, in their bodies, in their body language. And also with sound design, with music. Lynn Shelton design music language people There was a previously unknown, underlying condition, the doctors could not save her. They tried. Hard. Lynn Shelton
