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.
dried feature form hit looking reason secret shame sort stopped time words
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.
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.
editors actors photographer
I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.
phones trying together
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.
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.
rooms directors kind
I'm not one of those directors who can just kind of walk away from the edit room and come back and check in.
grateful artist able
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.