So many people have said this, but it's true: 95 percent of what I do as a director is casting and getting people who can bear the load of what you're asking them to do and creating this emotionally safe environment.
Lynn SheltonIn the collaborative process, you create a real intimacy; everybody ends up sharing personal stories and personal observations and their philosophies, their psychological side. By the time you get to set, it just creates such a sense of trust and intimacy between the director and the actors. It's really, really great.
Lynn SheltonThere'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.
Lynn SheltonI had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.
Lynn Shelton