Lynn Shelton

Lynn Shelton
Lynn Sheltonis an American director known for writing, directing, and producing such films as Humpday and Your Sister's Sister...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth2 August 1965
CityOberlin, OH
CountryUnited States of America
cardboard films
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.
knew
I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.
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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.
crushes fallen men single straight women
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.
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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?
oddities diverse-society diversity
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.
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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.
fun worry littles
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.
class voice acting
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.
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I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.
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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 of us meeting in person at some point, which is ideal if at all possible before we get on set together.
mind television
I hope to keep working with television. I wouldn't mind doing more.
small-numbers people able
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.
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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 in.