Film Quotes by Lynn Shelton

8 Film quotes by Lynn Shelton

Lynn Shelton provides eight succinct reflections on movies, each statement echoing her indie‑film sensibility. This concise collection offers a quick glimpse into how she perceives storytelling on screen.

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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

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When I started working in film, I loved photography, I loved the image, I loved telling the story within a frame, but…

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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…

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There's always so much more that can be conveyed on screen visually in the expressions of people's faces, in their bodies, in…

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There's so much great TV and I always thought it would be such a fun little sideway to make money and then…

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

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Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker,…

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In the collaborative process, you create a real intimacy; everybody ends up sharing personal stories and personal observations and their philosophies, their…

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

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The first time I ever intersected with the quote unquote industry or Hollywood or being given a paid job as a director all came…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working with actors…

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My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about how there…

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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…

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I like to put people into situations that are out of their comfort zone and see what happens.

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When I started working in film, I loved photography, I loved the image, I loved telling the story within a frame, but as I…

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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…

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