In 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 SheltonI 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.
Lynn SheltonI had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.
Lynn SheltonThe first time I ever intersected with the quote unquote industry or Hollywood or being given a paid job as a director all came because of the reputation I got coming out of Sundance as a veteran Sundance filmmaker.
Lynn SheltonWe're all flawed, and we all make mistakes, and we all have weaknesses. And those are the kind of people I want to see onscreen, the ones that feel like real flesh-and-blood human beings and not the weird, whitewashed, Hollywood stand-ins for people with the rough edges sanded off that I can't connect to because they just don't resonate with me.
Lynn Shelton