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.
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 feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working with actors to find their way. Facilitating their performances is so satisfying for me.
Lynn SheltonI'm drawn again and again to relationships between people who really, really want to connect and just can't get out of their own way to do it.
Lynn SheltonI had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.
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 Shelton