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
couch gone life mortgage wake
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?
god playing telling
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.
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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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.
change fascinated relationship self selves shift time
I'm really fascinated by the self and how our selves shift and change over time and in relationship to different people.
knew
I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.
people zone
I like to put people into situations that are out of their comfort zone and see what happens.
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.
actual believe defy humans kinda life lives stories truth
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.
body conveyed design music screen sound
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.
enough-time my-favorite muscles
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 stretching and flexing my muscles and learning how to direct better.
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.
order actors lines
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.
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.