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Lynn Shelton
American
Director
Born:
1965
Always
Life
Me
People
World
You
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I'm drawn again and again to relationships between people who really, really want to connect and just can't get out of their own way to do it.
Lynn Shelton
People
Own
Relationships
Way
Drawn
Out
Between
Get
Just
Want
Again
Really
Who
Connect
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
Education
Mom
You
Remember
Reading
Books
Ways
About
Something
Emotional
Like
How
Intelligent
Eight
Different
Them
Theory
Whole
Multiple
Different Ways
Her
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
Life
Truth
Day
You
Every Day
People
Real Life
Believe
Every
Incredible
Say
Defy
Kinda
Would
Put
Make
Messy
Real
Hear
Movie
Stories
Flawed
Really
Lives
Actual
Credibility
Humans
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
World
Own
Just Be
Rules
Follow
My Own
Write
Unconventional
Also
Sort
Just
Want
Script
Connect
Whoever
I'm really fascinated by the self and how our selves shift and change over time and in relationship to different people.
Lynn Shelton
Time
Relationship
Change
People
Our
Self
Over
How
Shift
Selves
Different
Really
Different People
Fascinated
I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working with actors to find their way. Facilitating their performances is so satisfying for me.
Lynn Shelton
Me
Director
Way
Find
Feel
Performance
Like
Interact
Which
Working
Meant
Acting
Helping
Actor
Satisfying
I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.
Lynn Shelton
Living
Able
Never
Knew
Make
Always
Expected
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
God
You
Photography
Frame
Telling
More
Like
Within
Around
Oh
Just
Oh My God
Loved
Story
Video
Much
Working
Film
Play
Image
Started
Playing
Before adolescence I had an incredible voice. Like when I was 12, 13, 14 - I was taking acting classes, I was painting, I was making music, I was taking photographs. I was kind of exploding creatively, and then something about adolescence really just ground that out of me.
Lynn Shelton
Music
Me
Before
Painting
Incredible
Out
Kind
Photographs
Classes
About
Adolescence
Something
Voice
Had
Taking
Like
Making
Just
Exploding
Then
Really
Acting
Acting Classes
Ground
Creatively
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
Work
You
People
Wait
Brilliant
Weaknesses
Find
Spine
Some
About
Shame
Writers
Most
Comfortable
Off
Text
Improvised
Again
Script
Capabilities
Really
Working
Who
Fully
Actor
Strengths
Need
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
Comedy
Humor
Every
Films
Way
Out
Darker
More
Never
Stuff
Make
Although
Always
Been
Heavier
Stories
Used
Present
Set
I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.
Lynn Shelton
Background
Photographer
Had
Editor
Experimental
Theater
Then
Actor
Filmmaker
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
Films
Make
Deal
Real
Real Deal
Hollywood
Cardboard
Humans
Desire
Need
For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity.
Lynn Shelton
Me
Diversity
Important
Live
Society
Circuit
Out
See
Diverse
Like
Anomaly
Because
Felt
Female
Oddity
Sources
Very
Festival
Want
Stories
Storytelling
Really
Whole
Filmmaker
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
Gay
Women
World
Men
Single
Every
Kind
Had
Crushes
Fallen
Person
Straight
Really
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
Music
People
Language
Design
On-Screen
Faces
More
Also
Always
Sound
Screen
Conveyed
Much
Bodies
Body
Body Language
Expressions
All we really want in life is to connect to other human beings, and when you desperately want to connect physically to one specific human being and you can't? That's something I find compelling.
Lynn Shelton
Life
You
Human Being
Other
Desperately
Find
Something
Physically
Human
Being
Want
Human Beings
Really
Connect
Beings
Specific
Compelling
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