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I'd love for there to be a situation - a world in which that's just not even a question anymore. We are all filmmakers - different stripes, genders, sexual orientations, colors - and our work can be taken on its own terms. I'm really looking forward to that day.
Lynn Shelton Quotes: I'd love for there to
Hmm, can I be obvious and say there is probably a double standard for male vs. female directors? Sadly, I think that's actually the case. And it probably stems from the fact that there are proportionately so many fewer women directors than men ones that each project is perhaps more closely scrutinized for its content.
Lynn Shelton Quotes: Hmm, can I be obvious
Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.
Lynn Shelton Quotes: Although humor is present in
My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about how there are all these different ways you can be intelligent, like eight or 10 of them or something. And one of them is emotional.
Lynn Shelton Quotes: My mom was in education,
I can't wait to do a fully improvised script again, to find people who are really comfortable and into it. It's about the capabilities of the people you're working with, what are their strengths and weaknesses. Some of the most brilliant actors need the spine of the text to work off of, and there's no shame in that; they're actors, not writers.
Lynn Shelton Quotes: I can't wait to do
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 Quotes: I always wanted the actors
I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.
Lynn Shelton Quotes: I can connect with whoever
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 Quotes: I like being able to
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 Quotes: I just really feel so
I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.
Lynn Shelton Quotes: I always knew that I
I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.
Lynn Shelton Quotes: I had a background in
Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and the way people can or can't relate to each other.
Lynn Shelton Quotes: Flaws make us all human,
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 Quotes: There's always so much more
I'm really fascinated by the self and how our selves shift and change over time and in relationship to different people.
Lynn Shelton Quotes: I'm really fascinated by the
It feels to me like everyone is going to do their best work when they feel emotionally safe.
Lynn Shelton Quotes: It feels to me like
We're all flawed, and we all make mistakes, and we all have weaknesses. And those are the kind of people I want to see onscreen, the ones that feel like real flesh-and-blood human beings and not the weird, whitewashed, Hollywood stand-ins for people with the rough edges sanded off that I can't connect to because they just don't resonate with me.
Lynn Shelton Quotes: We're all flawed, and we
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 Quotes: By the time I hit
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 Quotes: Making art, being creative, is
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 Quotes: I'm not one of those
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 Quotes: You wake up one day
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